Job 30:8

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • 2 Kgs 8:18 : 18 He walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab; for he had the daughter of Ahab as wife. He did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh.
  • 2 Kgs 8:27 : 27 He walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did that which was evil in the sight of Yahweh, 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 counselor to do wickedly.
  • Job 40:4 : 4 "Behold, I am of small account. What shall I answer you? I lay my hand on my mouth.
  • Ps 15:4 : 4 In whose eyes a vile man is despised, but who honors those who fear Yahweh; he who keeps an oath even when it hurts, and doesn't change;
  • Ps 49:10-13 : 10 For he sees that wise men die; likewise the fool and the senseless perish, and leave their wealth to others. 11 Their inward thought is that their houses will endure forever, and their dwelling places to all generations. They name their lands after themselves. 12 But man, despite his riches, doesn't endure. He is like the animals that perish. 13 This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 The fear of Yahweh is the beginning of knowledge; but the foolish despise wisdom and instruction.
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 "How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 16:22 : 22 Understanding is a fountain of life to one who has it, but the punishment of fools is their folly.
  • Isa 32:6 : 6 For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, To make empty the soul of the hungry, and to 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 the dough, to make cakes to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to other gods, that they may provoke me to anger.
  • Mark 6:24 : 24 She went out, and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" She said, "The head of John the Baptizer."

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    5 They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;

    6 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

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

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

  • Job 30:1-2
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    1 "But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

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

  • 8 But they are together brutish and foolish: the instruction of idols! it is but a stock.

  • 4 Then I said, "Surely these are poor. They are foolish; for they don't know the way of Yahweh, nor the law of their God.

  • 5 They have dealt corruptly with him, [they are] not his children, [it is] their blemish. [They are] a perverse and crooked generation.

  • 22 "For my people are foolish, they don't know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but to do good they have no knowledge."

  • 8 Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?

  • 5 They don't know, neither do they understand. They walk back and forth in darkness. All the foundations of the earth are shaken.

  • Isa 57:3-4
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    3 "But draw near here, you sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the prostitute.

    4 Against whom do you sport yourselves? Against whom do you make a wide mouth, and stick out your tongue? Aren't you children of disobedience, a seed of falsehood,

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

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

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

    5 Behold, as wild donkeys in the desert, they go forth to their work, seeking diligently for food. The wilderness yields them bread for their children.

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    4 I will give boys to be their princes, and children shall rule over them.

    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.

  • 28 For they are a nation void of counsel. There is no understanding in them.

  • 13 The young men bare the mill; The children stumbled under the wood.

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    8 They scoff and speak with malice. In arrogance, they threaten oppression.

    9 They have set their mouth in the heavens. Their tongue walks through the earth.

  • 10 Yes, 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 5:3-4
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    3 I have seen the foolish taking root, but suddenly I cursed his habitation.

    4 His children are far from safety. They are crushed in the gate. Neither is there any to deliver them,

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

  • 9 The wise men are disappointed, they are dismayed and taken: behold, they have rejected the word of Yahweh; and what kind of wisdom is in them?

  • 14 They die in youth. Their life perishes among the unclean.

  • 15 Folly is bound up in the heart of a child: the rod of discipline drives it far from him.

  • 14 with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves;

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

  • 9 For it is a rebellious people, lying children, children who will not hear the law of Yahweh;

  • 22 I was so senseless and ignorant. I was a brute beast before you.

  • 10 Let his children be wandering beggars. Let them be sought from their ruins.

  • 7 They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

  • 5 Those who did feed delicately are desolate in the streets: Those who were brought up in scarlet embrace dunghills.

  • 13 This is the destiny of those who are foolish, and of those who approve their sayings. Selah.

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

  • 12 Now the sons of Eli were base men; they didn't know Yahweh.

  • 6 But all of the ungodly shall be as thorns to be thrust away, because they can't be taken with the hand,

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

  • 6 A senseless man doesn't know, neither does a fool understand this:

  • 18 How often is it that they are as stubble before the wind, as chaff that the storm carries away?

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

  • 24 They are exalted; yet a little while, and they are gone. Yes, they are brought low, they are taken out of the way as all others, and are cut off as the tops of the ears of grain.

  • 10 For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.

  • 3 Their nobles send their little ones to the waters: they come to the cisterns, and find no water; they return with their vessels empty; they are disappointed and confounded, and cover their heads.

  • 1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity. There is no one who does good.