Job 30:8

Authorized King James Version (1611)

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

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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 the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD.
  • 2 Kgs 8:27 : 27 And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did evil in the sight of the LORD, 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 vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.
  • Ps 15:4 : 4 In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. [He that] sweareth to [his own] hurt, and changeth not.
  • Ps 49:10-13 : 10 For he seeth [that] wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person 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 Nevertheless man [being] in honour abideth not: he is like the beasts [that] perish. 13 This their way [is] their folly: yet their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 ¶ The fear of the LORD [is] the beginning of knowledge: [but] fools despise wisdom and instruction.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 16:22 : 22 ¶ Understanding [is] a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools [is] folly.
  • Isa 32:6 : 6 For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will 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 [their] 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 forth, and said unto her mother, What shall I ask? And she said, The head of John the Baptist.

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  • Job 30:5-7
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    5They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;)

    6To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.

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

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

  • Job 30:1-2
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    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.

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

  • 8But they are altogether brutish and foolish: the stock [is] a doctrine of vanities.

  • 4Therefore I said, Surely these [are] poor; they are foolish: for they know not the way of the LORD, [nor] the judgment of their God.

  • 5They have corrupted themselves, their spot [is] not [the spot] of his children: [they are] a perverse and crooked generation.

  • 22For my people [is] foolish, they have not known me; they [are] sottish children, and they have none understanding: they [are] wise to do evil, but to do good they have no knowledge.

  • 8Understand, ye brutish among the people: and [ye] fools, when will ye be wise?

  • 5They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

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

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

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

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

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

    5Behold, [as] wild asses in the desert, go they forth to their work; rising betimes for a prey: the wilderness [yieldeth] food for them [and] 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 neighbour: the child shall behave himself proudly against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

  • 28For they [are] a nation void of counsel, neither [is there any] understanding in them.

  • 13They took the young men to grind, and the children fell under the wood.

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    8They are corrupt, and speak wickedly [concerning] oppression: they speak loftily.

    9They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.

  • 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.

  • 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] reputed vile in your sight?

  • 9The wise [men] are ashamed, they are dismayed and taken: lo, they have rejected the word of the LORD; and what wisdom [is] in them?

  • 14They die in youth, and their life [is] among the unclean.

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

  • 14With kings and counsellors of the earth, which built desolate places for themselves;

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

  • 9That this [is] a rebellious people, lying children, children [that] will not hear the law of the LORD:

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

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

  • 7That 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 will go in unto the [same] maid, 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 their posterity approve their sayings. Selah.

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

  • 12Now the sons of Eli [were] sons of Belial; they knew not the LORD.

  • 6But [the sons] of Belial [shall be] all of them as thorns thrust away, because they cannot be taken with hands:

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

  • 6A brutish man knoweth not; neither doth a fool understand this.

  • 18They are as stubble before the wind, and as chaff that the storm carrieth away.

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

  • 24They are exalted for a little while, but are gone and brought low; they are taken out of the way as all [other], and cut off as the tops of the ears of corn.

  • 10For while [they be] folden together [as] thorns, and while they are drunken [as] drunkards, they shall be devoured as stubble fully dry.

  • 3And their nobles have sent their little ones to the waters: they came to the pits, [and] found no water; they returned with their vessels empty; they were ashamed and confounded, and covered their heads.

  • 1¶ To the chief Musician upon Mahalath, Maschil, [A Psalm] 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.