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Job 30:2

American Standard Version

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

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Job 30:2 in other translations

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

Job 30:2 · World English Bible

Job 30:2 in context

  1. 1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
  2. 2Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
  3. 3They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
  4. 4They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.