Job 30:1

American Standard Version (1901)

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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Referenced Verses

  • Job 12:4 : 4 I am as one that is a laughing-stock to his neighbor, I who called upon God, and he answered: The just, the perfect man is a laughing-stock.
  • Job 19:13-19 : 13 He hath put my brethren far from me, And mine acquaintance are wholly estranged from me. 14 My kinsfolk have failed, And my familiar friends have forgotten me. 15 They that dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. 16 I call unto my servant, and he giveth me no answer, [Though] I entreat him with my mouth. 17 My breath is strange to my wife, And my supplication to the children of mine own mother. 18 Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me. 19 All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.
  • Job 29:8-9 : 8 The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood; 9 The princes refrained from talking, And laid their hand on their mouth; 10 The voice of the nobles was hushed, And their tongue cleaved to the roof of their mouth.
  • Ps 35:15-16 : 15 But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; They did tear me, and ceased not: 16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.
  • Ps 69:12 : 12 They that sit in the gate talk of me; And [I am] the song of the drunkards.
  • Isa 3:5 : 5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.
  • Mark 14:65 : 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 officers received him with blows of their hands.
  • Mark 15:17-20 : 17 And they clothe him with purple, and platting a crown of thorns, they put it on him; 18 and they began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews! 19 And they smote his head with a reed, and spat upon him, and bowing their knees worshipped him. 20 And when they had mocked him, they took off from him the purple, and put on him his garments. And they lead him out to crucify him.
  • Luke 23:14 : 14 and said unto them, Ye brought unto me this man, as one that perverteth the people: and behold, I having examined him before you, found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him:
  • Luke 23:18 : 18 But they cried out all together, saying, Away with this man, and release unto us Barabbas:--
  • Luke 23:35 : 35 And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also scoffed at him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen.
  • Luke 23:39 : 39 And one of the malefactors that were hanged railed on him, saying, Art not thou the Christ? save thyself and us.
  • Acts 17:5 : 5 But the Jews, being moved with jealousy, took unto them certain vile fellows of the rabble, and gathering a crowd, set the city on an uproar; and assaulting the house of Jason, they sought to bring them forth to the people.
  • Titus 1:12 : 12 One of themselves, a prophet of their own, said, Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, idle gluttons.
  • 2 Kgs 2:23 : 23 And he went up from thence unto Beth-el; and as he was going up by the way, there came forth young lads out of the city, and mocked him, and said unto him, Go up, thou baldhead; go up, thou baldhead.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.

  • Job 19:18-19
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    76%

    18Even young children despise me; If I arise, they speak against me.

    19All my familiar friends abhor me, And they whom I loved are turned against me.

  • 10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, Much elder than thy father.

  • Job 30:7-13
    7 verses
    73%

    7Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together.

    8[ They are] children of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land.

    9And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them.

    10They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And spare not to spit in my face.

    11For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me; And they have cast off the bridle before me.

    12Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

    13They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even] men that have no helper.

  • 8The young men saw me and hid themselves, And the aged rose up and stood;

  • Ps 35:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15But in mine adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together: The abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; They did tear me, and ceased not:

    16Like the profane mockers in feasts, They gnashed upon me with their teeth.

  • 31The greyhound; The he-goat also; And the king against whom there is no rising up.

  • 11Because of all mine adversaries I am become a reproach, Yea, unto my neighbors exceedingly, And a fear to mine acquaintance: They that did see me without fled from me.

  • 2Surely there are mockers with me, And mine eye dwelleth upon their provocation.

  • 14I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

  • 16For dogs have compassed me: A company of evil-doers have inclosed me; They pierced my hands and my feet.

  • 10They have gaped upon me with their mouth; They have smitten me upon the cheek reproachfully: They gather themselves together against me.

  • 15If I had said, I will speak thus; Behold, I had dealt treacherously with the generation of thy children.

  • 6Children's children are the crown of old men; And the glory of children are their fathers.

  • Job 31:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20If his loins have not blessed me, And if he hath not been warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

    21If I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, Because I saw my help in the gate:

  • 6But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

  • Ps 22:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6But I am a worm, and no man; A reproach of men, and despised of the people.

    7All they that see me laugh me to scorn: They shoot out the lip, they shake the head, [saying] ,

  • Job 16:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    7But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.

    8And thou hast laid fast hold on me, [which] is a witness [against me] : And my leanness riseth up against me, It testifieth to my face.

  • 51The proud have had me greatly in derision: [Yet] have I not swerved from thy law.

  • 30They would none of my counsel; They despised all my reproof.

  • 9Cast me not off in the time of old age; Forsake me not when my strength faileth.

  • 24But the shameful thing hath devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

  • 17The eye that mocketh at his father, And despiseth to obey his mother, The ravens of the valley shall pick it out, And the young eagles shall eat it.

  • 5And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor: the child shall behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

  • 3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you: Yea, who knoweth not such things as these?

  • 3These ten times have ye reproached me: Ye are not ashamed that ye deal hardly with me.

  • 38These twenty years have I been with thee; thy ewes and thy she-goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flocks have I not eaten.

  • 3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [And] are become unclean in your sight?

  • 13They gape upon me with their mouth, [As] a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • 26I also will laugh in [the day of] your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

  • 10Yea, he scoffeth at kings, and princes are a derision unto him; he derideth every stronghold; for he heapeth up dust, and taketh it.

  • 13If I have despised the cause of my man-servant or of my maid-servant, When they contended with me;

  • 11They have now compassed us in our steps; They set their eyes to cast [us] down to the earth.

  • 4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

  • 20My friends scoff at me: [But] mine eye poureth out tears unto God,

  • 19And as for my sheep, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.

  • 24I smiled on them, when they had no confidence; And the light of my countenance they cast not down.

  • 11He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

  • 6And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I am young, and ye are very old; Wherefore I held back, and durst not show you mine opinion.