Job 30:1

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

וְעַתָּ֤ה ׀ שָֽׂחֲק֣וּ עָלַי֮ צְעִירִ֥ים מִמֶּ֗נִּי לְיָ֫מִ֥ים אֲשֶׁר־מָאַ֥סְתִּי אֲבוֹתָ֑ם לָ֝שִׁ֗ית עִם־כַּלְבֵ֥י צֹאנִֽי

Transliteration

And ʿattâ they śāḥăqû upon me ṣəʿîrîm from me in yāmîm whom I māʾastî their ʾăḇôṯām, lāśîṯ with kalḇê of my ṣōʾnî

Grammar Details

• *wə-*: conjunction - and/but/now
• *ʿattâ*: adverb - now
• *śāḥăqû*: verb, qal perfect, 3rd person plural - they laugh/mock
• *ʿālay*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - upon me
• *ṣəʿîrîm*: adjective, masculine plural - younger ones
• *mimmennî*: preposition with 1st person singular suffix - from me/than me
• *lə-yāmîm*: preposition with noun, masculine plural - for days/in age
• *ʾăšer*: relative pronoun - who/which/that
• *māʾastî*: verb, qal perfect, 1st person singular - I rejected/despised
• *ʾăḇôṯām*: noun, masculine plural with 3rd person masculine plural suffix - their fathers
• *lāśîṯ*: preposition with infinitive construct - to place/set/appoint
• *ʿim-kalḇê*: preposition with noun, masculine plural construct - with dogs of
• *ṣōʾnî*: noun, common singular with 1st person singular suffix - my flock/sheep

Word Meanings

• *ʿattâ*: now/at this time
• *śāḥăqû*: laugh at/mock/deride
• *ṣəʿîrîm*: younger ones/youth/juniors
• *yāmîm*: days/age/years
• *māʾastî*: rejected/despised/refused
• *lāśîṯ*: to place/to set/to appoint
• *kalḇê*: dogs/contemptible persons

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 {G2596} 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, {G1487} Art not thou the Christ? save thyself and us.
• Acts 17:5 : 5 But the Jews, {G3588} {G544} being moved with jealousy, took unto them {G2532} 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.