Job 30:1
But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
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Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts
But now, those younger than I mock me—people whose fathers I would have refused to place with my sheepdogs.
King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)
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.
American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers
But now they that are younger{H6810} than I have me in derision,{H7832} Whose fathers{H1} I disdained{H3988} to set{H7896} with the dogs{H3611} of my flock.{H6629}
King James Version with Strong's Numbers
But now they that are younger{H6810}{H3117} than I have me in derision{H7832}{(H8804)}, whose fathers{H1} I would have disdained{H3988}{(H8804)} to have set{H7896}{(H8800)} with the dogs{H3611} of my flock{H6629}.
Coverdale Bible (1535)
Bvt now they that are my inferiours & yonger then I, haue me in derision: yee eue they, whose fathers I wolde haue thought scorne to haue set wt the dogges of my catell.
Geneva Bible (1560)
Bvt now they that are yonger then I, mocke me: yea, they whose fathers I haue refused to set with the dogges of my flockes.
Bishops' Bible (1568)
But nowe they that are younger then I haue me in derision: yea euen they whose fathers I would haue thought scorne to haue set with the dogges of my cattell.
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.
Webster's Bible (1833)
"But now those who are younger than I, have me in derision, Whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)
And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.
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.
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.
Bible in Basic English (1941)
But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.
World English Bible (2000)
"But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
NET Bible® (New English Translation)
Job’s Present Misery“But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.
Referenced Verses
- Job 12:4 : 4 I am like one mocked by his neighbor, who calls upon God, and He answers him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
- Job 19:13-19 : 13 He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are truly estranged from me. 14 My relatives have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me. 15 Those who dwell in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. 16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I pleaded with him with my mouth. 17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I pleaded for the children's sake of my own body. 18 Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me. 19 All my close friends abhorred me; and those whom I loved have turned against me.
- Job 29:8-9 : 8 The young men saw me and hid themselves; even the aged arose and stood. 9 The princes refrained from speaking, and laid their hands on their mouths. 10 The nobles kept silence, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
- Ps 35:15-16 : 15 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me, and did not cease: 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
- Ps 69:12 : 12 Those who 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 neighbor; the child shall act proudly against the elder, and the vile against the honorable.
- Mark 14:65 : 65 And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face and to beat him, and to say to him, Prophesy; and the servants struck him with the palms of their hands.
- Mark 15:17-20 : 17 And they clothed him with purple, and twisted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, 18 And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews! 19 And they struck him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees, worshiped him. 20 And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.
- Luke 23:14 : 14 Said to them, You have brought this man to me as one who misleads the people. And behold, I have examined Him in your presence, and have found no fault in this man concerning those things of which you accuse Him.
- Luke 23:18 : 18 And they all cried out at once, saying, Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas:
- Luke 23:35 : 35 And the people stood looking on. But the rulers, with them, sneered, saying, He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is Christ, the chosen of God.
- Luke 23:39 : 39 Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, If You are Christ, save Yourself and us.
- Acts 17:5 : 5 But the Jews who did not believe, moved with envy, took certain troublemakers from the marketplace, and gathered a mob, set all the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
- Titus 1:12 : 12 One of them, a prophet of their own, said, 'Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.'
- 2 Kgs 2:23 : 23 And he went up from there to Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead.
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