Job 30:2
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New International Version (©1984)
Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me? Vigor had perished from them.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Of what use to me was the strength of their hands? Their strength is gone.

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

American King James Version
Yes, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

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

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
Yea, whereto should the strength of their hands profit me, men in whom vigour hath perished?

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

Webster's Bible Translation
Yes, to what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age had perished?

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

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

Geneva Study Bible

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

(c) That is, their fathers died of hunger before they came to age.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

2. If their fathers could be of no profit to me, much less the sons, who are feebler than their sires; and in whose case the hope of attaining old age is utterly gone, so puny are they (Job 5:26) [Maurer]. Even if they had "strength of hands," that could be now of no use to me, as all I want in my present affliction is sympathy.

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

30:1-14 Job contrasts his present condition with his former honour and authority. What little cause have men to be ambitious or proud of that which may be so easily lost, and what little confidence is to be put in it! We should not be cast down if we are despised, reviled, and hated by wicked men. We should look to Jesus, who endured the contradiction of sinners.


Job 30:1 "But now those younger than I mock me, Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.
Job 30:3 "From want and famine they are gaunt Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation, (NASB ©1995)

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

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