Job 30:1

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 12:4 : 4 I am like one who is a joke to his neighbor, I, who called on God, and he answered. The just, the blameless man is a joke.
  • Job 19:13-19 : 13 "He has put my brothers far from me. My acquaintances are wholly estranged from me. 14 My relatives have gone away. My familiar friends have forgotten me. 15 Those who dwell in my house, and my maids, count me for a stranger. I am an alien in their sight. 16 I call to my servant, and he gives me no answer. I beg him with my mouth. 17 My breath is offensive to my wife. I am loathsome to the children of my own mother. 18 Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me. 19 All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.
  • Job 29:8-9 : 8 The young men saw me and hid themselves. 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 stuck to the roof of their mouth.
  • Ps 35:15-16 : 15 But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease. 16 Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.
  • Ps 69:12 : 12 Those who sit in the gate talk about me. I am the song of the drunkards.
  • Isa 3:5 : 5 The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.
  • Mark 14:65 : 65 Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, "Prophesy!" The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.
  • Mark 15:17-20 : 17 They clothed him with purple, and weaving a crown of thorns, they put it on him. 18 They began to salute him, "Hail, King of the Jews!" 19 They struck his head with a reed, and spat on him, and bowing their knees, did homage to him. 20 When they had mocked him, they took the purple off of him, and put his own garments on him. They led him out to crucify him.
  • Luke 23:14 : 14 and said to them, "You brought this man to me as one that perverts the people, and see, I have examined him before you, and found no basis for a charge against this man concerning those things of which you accuse him.
  • Luke 23:18 : 18 But they all cried out together, saying, "Away with this man! Release to us Barabbas!"--
  • Luke 23:35 : 35 The people stood watching. The rulers with them also scoffed at him, saying, "He saved others. Let him save himself, if this is the Christ of God, his chosen one!"
  • Luke 23:39 : 39 One of the criminals who was hanged insulted him, saying, "If you are the Christ, save yourself and us!"
  • Acts 17:5 : 5 But the unpersuaded Jews took along some wicked men from the marketplace, and gathering a crowd, set the city in an uproar. Assaulting the house of Jason, they 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, and idle gluttons."
  • 2 Kgs 2:23 : 23 He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, "Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldhead!"

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 30:2
    84%

    2Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

  • Job 19:18-19
    2 verses
    76%

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

    19All my familiar friends abhor me. They whom I loved have turned against me.

  • Job 15:10
    73%

    10With us are both the gray-headed and the very aged men, much elder than your father.

  • Job 30:7-13
    7 verses
    73%

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

    8They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.

    9"Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.

    10They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don't hesitate to spit in my face.

    11For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.

    12On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

    13They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help.

  • Job 29:8
    72%

    8The young men saw me and hid themselves. The aged rose up and stood.

  • Ps 35:15-16
    2 verses
    71%

    15But in my adversity, they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together. The attackers gathered themselves together against me, and I didn't know it. They tore at me, and didn't cease.

    16Like the profane mockers in feasts, they gnashed their teeth at me.

  • Prov 30:31
    71%

    31the greyhound, the male goat also; and the king against whom there is no rising up.

  • Ps 31:11
    71%

    11Because of all my adversaries I have become utterly contemptible to my neighbors, A fear to my acquaintances. Those who saw me on the street fled from me.

  • Job 17:2
    71%

    2Surely there are mockers with me. My eye dwells on their provocation.

  • Lam 3:14
    71%

    14I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

  • Ps 22:16
    70%

    16For dogs have surrounded me. A company of evildoers have enclosed me. They have pierced my hands and feet.

  • Job 16:10
    70%

    10They have gaped on me with their mouth. They have struck me on the cheek reproachfully. They gather themselves together against me.

  • Ps 73:15
    70%

    15If I had said, "I will speak thus;" behold, I would have betrayed the generation of your children.

  • Prov 17:6
    70%

    6Children's children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

  • Job 31:20-21
    2 verses
    70%

    20if his heart hasn't blessed me, if he hasn't been warmed with my sheep's fleece;

    21if I have lifted up my hand against the fatherless, because I saw my help in the gate,

  • Job 17:6
    70%

    6"But he has made me a byword of the people. They spit in my face.

  • Ps 22:6-7
    2 verses
    70%

    6But I am a worm, and no man; a reproach of men, and despised by the people.

    7All those who see me mock me. They insult me with their lips. They shake their heads, saying,

  • Job 16:7-8
    2 verses
    69%

    7But now, God, you have surely worn me out. You have made desolate all my company.

    8You have shriveled me up. This is a witness against me. My leanness rises up against me. It testifies to my face.

  • Ps 119:51
    69%

    51The arrogant mock me excessively, but I don't swerve from your law.

  • Prov 1:30
    69%

    30They wanted none of my counsel. They despised all my reproof.

  • Ps 71:9
    69%

    9Don't reject me in my old age. Don't forsake me when my strength fails.

  • Jer 3:24
    69%

    24But the shameful thing has devoured the labor of our fathers from our youth, their flocks and their herds, their sons and their daughters.

  • Prov 30:17
    69%

    17"The eye that mocks at his father, and scorns obedience to his mother: the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, the young eagles shall eat it.

  • Isa 3:5
    69%

    5The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the base against the honorable.

  • Job 12:3
    69%

    3But I have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Yes, who doesn't know such things as these?

  • Job 19:3
    69%

    3You have reproached me ten times. You aren't ashamed that you attack me.

  • Gen 31:38
    69%

    38"These twenty years I have been with you. Your ewes and your female goats have not cast their young, and I haven't eaten the rams of your flocks.

  • Job 18:3
    69%

    3Why are we counted as animals, which have become unclean in your sight?

  • Ps 22:13
    69%

    13They open their mouths wide against me, lions tearing prey and roaring.

  • Prov 1:26
    69%

    26I also will laugh at your disaster. I will mock when calamity overtakes you;

  • Hab 1:10
    69%

    10Yes, he scoffs at kings, and princes are a derision to him. He laughs at every stronghold, for he builds up an earthen ramp, and takes it.

  • Job 31:13
    68%

    13"If I have despised the cause of my male servant or of my female servant, when they contended with me;

  • Ps 17:11
    68%

    11They have now surrounded us in our steps. They set their eyes to cast us down to the earth.

  • Lam 3:4
    68%

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

  • Job 16:20
    68%

    20My friends scoff at me. My eyes pour out tears to God,

  • Ezek 34:19
    68%

    19As for my sheep, they eat that which you have trodden with your feet, and they drink that which you have fouled with your feet.

  • Job 29:24
    68%

    24I smiled on them when they had no confidence. They didn't reject the light of my face.

  • Lam 3:11
    68%

    11He has turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he has made me desolate.

  • Job 32:6
    68%

    6Elihu the son of Barachel the Buzite answered, "I am young, and you are very old; Therefore I held back, and didn't dare show you my opinion.