Job 30:1

¶ But now [they that are] younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

But now they that are younger {H6810}{H3117} than I have me in derision {H7832}, whose fathers {H1} I would have disdained {H3988} to have set {H7896} with the dogs {H3611} of my flock {H6629}.

"But now those younger than I hold me in derision, men whose fathers I wouldn't even have put with the dogs that guarded my sheep.

“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.

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

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Cross-References

  • Job 12:4 (5 votes)

    I am [as] one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright [man is] laughed to scorn.

  • Luke 23:35 (4 votes)

    And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided [him], saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.

  • Psalms 69:12 (4 votes)

    They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I [was] the song of the drunkards.

  • Psalms 35:15 (4 votes)

    But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: [yea], the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not:

  • Psalms 35:16 (4 votes)

    With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

  • 2 Kings 2:23 (3 votes)

    And he went up from thence unto Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou bald head; go up, thou bald head.

  • Acts 17:5 (2 votes)

    But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.