Job 30:1

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ 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.

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  • Job 12:4 : 4 I am [as] one mocked of his neighbour, who calleth upon God, and he answereth him: the just upright [man is] laughed to scorn.
  • Job 19:13-19 : 13 He hath put my brethren far from me, and mine acquaintance are verily estranged from me. 14 My kinsfolk have failed, and my familiar friends have forgotten me. 15 They that dwell in mine house, and my maids, count me for a stranger: I am an alien in their sight. 16 I called my servant, and he gave [me] no answer; I intreated him with my mouth. 17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I intreated for the children's [sake] of mine own body. 18 Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me. 19 All my inward friends abhorred 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 arose, [and] stood up. 9 The princes refrained talking, and laid [their] hand on their mouth. 10 The nobles held their peace, 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: [yea], the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew [it] not; they did tear [me], and ceased not: 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
  • Ps 69:12 : 12 They that sit in the gate speak against me; and I [was] the song of the drunkards.
  • Isa 3:5 : 5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.
  • 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 servants did strike him with the palms of their hands.
  • Mark 15:17-20 : 17 And they clothed him with purple, and platted a crown of thorns, and put it about his [head], 18 And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews! 19 And they smote him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing [their] knees worshipped him. 20 And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.
  • Luke 23:14 : 14 Said unto them, Ye have brought this man unto me, as one that perverteth the people: and, behold, I, having examined [him] before you, have found no fault in this man touching those things whereof ye accuse him:
  • Luke 23:18 : 18 And they cried out all at once, saying, Away with this [man], and release unto us Barabbas:
  • Luke 23:35 : 35 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.
  • Luke 23:39 : 39 And one of the malefactors which were hanged railed on him, saying, If thou be Christ, save thyself and us.
  • Acts 17:5 : 5 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.
  • Titus 1:12 : 12 One of themselves, [even] a prophet of their own, said, The Cretians [are] alway liars, evil beasts, slow bellies.
  • 2 Kgs 2:23 : 23 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.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 2Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished?

  • Job 19:18-19
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    18Yea, young children despised me; I arose, and they spake against me.

    19All my inward friends abhorred me: and they whom I loved are turned against me.

  • 10With us [are] both the grayheaded and very aged men, much elder than thy father.

  • Job 30:7-13
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    73%

    7Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

    8[They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

    9And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

    10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

    11Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

    12Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

    13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

  • 8The young men saw me, and hid themselves: and the aged arose, [and] stood up.

  • Ps 35:15-16
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    71%

    15But 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:

    16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

  • 31A greyhound; an he goat also; and a king, against whom [there is] no rising up.

  • 11I was a reproach among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours, and a fear to mine acquaintance: they that did see me without fled from me.

  • 2[Are there] not mockers with me? and doth not mine eye continue in their provocation?

  • 14I was a derision to all my people; [and] their song all the day.

  • 16For dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked 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 have gathered themselves together against me.

  • 15¶ If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I should offend [against] the generation of thy children.

  • 6¶ Children's children [are] the crown of old men; and the glory of children [are] their fathers.

  • Job 31:20-21
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    20If his loins have not blessed me, and [if] he were [not] warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

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

  • 6He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

  • 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 filled me with wrinkles, [which] is a witness [against me]: and my leanness rising up in me beareth witness to my face.

  • 51¶ The proud have had me greatly in derision: [yet] have I not declined 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.

  • 24For shame hath devoured the labour 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 neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

  • 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 make yourselves strange to me.

  • 38This twenty years [have] I [been] with thee; thy ewes and thy she goats have not cast their young, and the rams of thy flock have I not eaten.

  • 3Wherefore are we counted as beasts, [and] reputed vile in your sight?

  • 13They gaped upon me [with] their mouths, [as] a ravening and a roaring lion.

  • 26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear cometh;

  • 10And they shall scoff at the kings, and the princes shall be a scorn unto them: they shall deride every strong hold; for they shall heap dust, and take it.

  • 13If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

  • 11They have now compassed us in our steps: they have set their eyes bowing down to the earth;

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

  • 20My friends scorn me: [but] mine eye poureth out [tears] unto God.

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

  • 24[If] I laughed on them, they believed [it] not; 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.

  • 6¶ And Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered and said, I [am] young, and ye [are] very old; wherefore I was afraid, and durst not shew you mine opinion.