Job 30:2
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The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.

Job 30:1
But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:

Job 30:3
Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.

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

Context
Job's Honor Turned into Contempt
1But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock: 2The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.3Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.…
Lexicon
Indeed,
גַּם־ (gam-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

what use
לָ֣מָּה (lām·māh)
Preposition-l | Interrogative
Strong's Hebrew 4100: What?, what!, indefinitely what

to me
לִּ֑י (lî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew

was the strength
כֹּ֣חַ (kō·aḥ)
Noun - masculine singular construct
Strong's Hebrew 3581: A small reptile (of unknown species)

of their hands,
יְ֭דֵיהֶם (yə·ḏê·hem)
Noun - fdc | third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 3027: A hand

since their vigor
כָּֽלַח׃ (kā·laḥ)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3624: Firm or rugged strength

had left them?
אָ֣בַד (’ā·ḇaḏ)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 6: To wander away, lose oneself, to perish


Additional Translations
Indeed, what use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?Yes, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

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

Yea, why had I the strength of their hands? for them the full term of life was lost.

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

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

Yes, to what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age had perished?

Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

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