Job 30:1
Good News Translation
But men younger than I am make fun of me now! Their fathers have always been so worthless that I wouldn't let them help my dogs guard sheep.

New Revised Standard Version
“But now they make sport of me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

Contemporary English Version
Young people now insult me, although their fathers would have been a disgrace to my sheep dogs.

New American Bible
But now they hold me in derision who are younger than I, Whose fathers I should have disdained to rank with the dogs of my flock.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

they that are

Job 19:13-19 He hath put my brethren far from me, and my acquaintance like strangers have departed from me. . . .

Job 29:8-10 The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the old men rose up and stood. . . .

2 Kings 2:23 And he went up from thence to Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, little boys came out of the city and mocked him, saying: Go up, thou bald head, go up, thou bald head.

Isaiah 3:5 And the people shall rush one upon another, and every man against his neighbour: the child shall make a tumult against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

younger than I.

Psalm 35:15,16 But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not. . . .

Psalm 69:12 They that sat in the gate spoke against me: and they that drank wine made me their song.

Mark 14:65 And some began to spit on him and to cover his face and to buffet him and to say unto him: Prophesy. And the servants struck him with the palms their hands.

Mark 15:17-20 And they clothed him with purple: and, platting a crown of thorns, they put it upon him. . . .

Luke 23:14,18,35,39 Said to them: You have presented unto me this man as one that perverteth the people. And behold I, having examined him before you, find no cause in this man, in those things wherein you accuse him. . . .

Acts 17:5 But the Jews, moved with envy and taking unto them some wicked men of the vulgar sort and making a tumult, set the city in an uproar: and besetting Jason's house, sought to bring them out unto the people.

Titus 1:12 One of them a prophet of their own, said: The Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, slothful bellies.

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.…
Cross References
Job 12:4
He that is mocked by his friends as I, shall call upon God and he will hear him: for the simplicity of the just man is laughed to scorn.

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

Psalm 35:15
But they rejoiced against me, and came together: scourges were gathered together upon me, and I knew not.

Psalm 119:51
The proud did iniquitously altogether: but I declined not from thy law.

Job 29:25
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