Job 30:2

What does Job 30:2 mean?

A plain-English look at Job 30:2 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.

BBE

Bible in Basic English · 1949

Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.

YLT

Young's Literal Translation · 1862

Also--the power of their hands, why <FI>is it<Fi> to me? On them hath old age perished.

DRA

Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752

The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.

DBY

Darby Bible · 1890

Yea, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished?

Context

v.1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

v.2This passage

v.3They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

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