Job 30:8

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • 2 Kgs 8:18 : 18 And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for he had the daughter of Ahab to wife; and he did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah.
  • 2 Kgs 8:27 : 27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did that which was evil in the sight of Jehovah, as did the house of Ahab; for he was the son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
  • 2 Chr 22:3 : 3 He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab; for his mother was his counsellor to do wickedly.
  • Job 40:4 : 4 Behold, I am of small account; What shall I answer thee? I lay my hand upon my mouth.
  • Ps 15:4 : 4 In whose eyes a reprobate is despised, But who honoreth them that fear Jehovah; He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not;
  • Ps 49:10-13 : 10 For he shall see it. Wise men die; The fool and the brutish alike perish, And leave their wealth to others. 11 Their inward thought is, [that] their houses [shall continue] for ever, [And] their dwelling-places to all generations; They call their lands after their own names. 12 But man [being] in honor abideth not: He is like the beasts that perish. 13 This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings. {{Selah
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of Jehovah is the beginning of knowledge; [But] the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? And scoffers delight them in scoffing, And fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 16:22 : 22 Understanding is a well-spring of life unto him that hath it; But the correction of fools is [their] folly.
  • Isa 32:6 : 6 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise profaneness, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
  • Jer 7:18 : 18 The children gather wood, and the fathers kindle the fire, and the women knead the dough, to make cakes to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink-offerings unto other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
  • Mark 6:24 : 24 And she went out, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptizer.

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  • Job 30:5-7
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    5They are driven forth from the midst [of men] ; They cry after them as after a thief;

    6So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.

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

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

  • Job 30:1-2
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    1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

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

  • 8But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

  • 4Then I said, Surely these are poor; they are foolish; for they know not the way of Jehovah, nor the law of their God:

  • 5They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not his children, [it is] their blemish; [They are] a perverse and crooked generation.

  • 22For my people are foolish, they know me not; they are sottish children, and they have no understanding; they are wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • 8Consider, ye brutish among the people; And ye fools, when will ye be wise?

  • 5They know not, neither do they understand; They walk to and fro in darkness: All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • Isa 57:3-4
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    3But draw near hither, ye sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.

    4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? against whom make ye a wide mouth, and put out the tongue? are ye not children of transgression, a seed of falsehood,

  • 17Fools because of their transgression, And because of their iniquities, are afflicted.

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

  • Job 24:4-5
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    4They turn the needy out of the way: The poor of the earth all hide themselves.

    5Behold, as wild asses in the desert They go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food; The wilderness [yieldeth] them bread for their children.

  • Isa 3:4-5
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    4And I will give children to be their princes, and babes shall rule over them.

    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.

  • 28For they are a nation void of counsel, And there is no understanding in them.

  • 13The young men bare the mill; And the children stumbled under the wood.

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    8They scoff, and in wickedness utter oppression: They speak loftily.

    9They have set their mouth in the heavens, And their tongue walketh through the earth.

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

  • Job 5:3-4
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    3I have seen the foolish taking root: But suddenly I cursed his habitation.

    4His children are far from safety, And they are crushed in the gate, Neither is there any to deliver them:

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

  • 9The wise men are put to shame, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of Jehovah; and what manner of wisdom is in them?

  • 14They die in youth, And their life [perisheth] among the unclean.

  • 15Foolishness is bound up in the heart of a child; [But] the rod of correction shall drive it far from him.

  • 14With kings and counsellors of the earth, Who built up waste places for themselves;

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

  • 9For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children that will not hear the law of Jehovah;

  • 22So brutish was I, and ignorant; I was [as] a beast before thee.

  • 10Let his children be vagabonds, and beg; And let them seek [their bread] out of their desolate places.

  • 7they that pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father go unto the [same] maiden, to profane my holy name:

  • 5They that did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: They that were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

  • 13This their way is their folly: Yet after them men approve their sayings. {{Selah

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

  • 12Now the sons of Eli were base men; they knew not Jehovah.

  • 6But the ungodly shall be all of them as thorns to be thrust away, Because they cannot be taken with the hand;

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

  • 6A brutish man knoweth not; Neither doth a fool understand this:

  • 18That they are as stubble before the wind, And as chaff that the storm carrieth away?

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

  • 24They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone; Yea, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, And are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

  • 10For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly as dry stubble.

  • 3And their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are put to shame and confounded, and cover their heads.

  • 1[For the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath. Maschil of David]. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity; There is none that doeth good.