Job 30:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

Sons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.

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  • 2 Kgs 8:18 : 18 And he walketh in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab, for a daughter of Ahab was to him for a wife, and he doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah,
  • 2 Kgs 8:27 : 27 and he walketh in the way of the house of Ahab, and doth the evil thing in the eyes of Jehovah, like the house of Ahab, for he `is' son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
  • 2 Chr 22:3 : 3 he also hath walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother hath been his counsellor to do wickedly.
  • Job 40:4 : 4 Lo, I have been vile, What do I return to Thee? My hand I have placed on my mouth.
  • Ps 15:4 : 4 Despised in his eyes `is' a rejected one, And those fearing Jehovah he doth honour. He hath sworn to suffer evil, and changeth not;
  • Ps 49:10-13 : 10 For he seeth wise men die, Together the foolish and brutish perish, And have left to others their wealth. 11 Their heart `is': Their houses `are' to the age, Their tabernacles to all generations. They proclaimed their names over the lands. 12 And man in honour doth not remain, He hath been like the beasts, they have been cut off. 13 This their way `is' folly for them, And their posterity with their sayings are pleased. Selah.
  • Prov 1:7 : 7 Fear of Jehovah `is' a beginning of knowledge, Wisdom and instruction fools have despised!
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 `Till when, ye simple, do ye love simplicity? And have scorners their scorning desired? And do fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 16:22 : 22 A fountain of life `is' understanding to its possessors, The instruction of fools is folly.
  • Isa 32:6 : 6 For a fool speaketh folly, And his heart doth iniquity, to do profanity, And to speak concerning Jehovah error, To empty the soul of the hungry, Yea, drink of the thirsty he causeth to lack.
  • Jer 7:18 : 18 The sons are gathering wood, And the fathers are causing the fire to burn, And the women are kneading dough, To make cakes to the queen of the heavens, And to pour out libations to other gods, So as to provoke Me to anger.
  • Mark 6:24 : 24 And she, having gone forth, said to her mother, `What shall I ask for myself?' and she said, `The head of John the Baptist;'

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  • Job 30:5-7
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    5From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),

    6In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts.

    7Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.

  • 9And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.

  • Job 30:1-2
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    1And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.

    2Also -- the power of their hands, why `is it' to me? On them hath old age perished.

  • 8And in one they are brutish and foolish, An instruction of vanities `is' the tree itself.

  • 4And I -- I said, `Surely these `are' poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.

  • 5It hath done corruptly to Him; Their blemish is not His sons', A generation perverse and crooked!

  • 22For my people `are' foolish, me they have not known, Foolish sons `are' they, yea, they `are' not intelligent, Wise `are' they to do evil, And to do good they have not known.

  • 8Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?

  • 5They knew not, nor do they understand, In darkness they walk habitually, Moved are all the foundations of earth.

  • Isa 57:3-4
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    3And ye, come near hither, O sons of a sorceress, seed of an adulterer, Even thou dost commit whoredom.

    4Against whom do ye sport yourselves? Against whom enlarge ye the mouth? Prolong ye the tongue? Are not ye children of transgression? a false seed?

  • 17Fools, by means of their transgression, And by their iniquities, afflict themselves.

  • 18Also sucklings have despised me, I rise, and they speak against me.

  • Job 24:4-5
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    4They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.

    5Lo, wild asses in a wilderness, They have gone out about their work, Seeking early for prey, A mixture for himself -- food for young ones.

  • Isa 3:4-5
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    4And I have made youths their heads, And sucklings rule over them.

    5And the people hath exacted -- man upon man, Even a man on his neighbour, Enlarge themselves do the youths against the aged, And the lightly esteemed against the honoured.

  • 28For a nation lost to counsels `are' they, And there is no understanding in them.

  • 13Young men to grind they have taken, And youths with wood have stumbled.

  • Ps 73:8-9
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    8They do corruptly, And they speak in the wickedness of oppression, From on high they speak.

    9They have set in the heavens their mouth, And their tongue walketh in the earth.

  • 10And at kings it doth scoff, And princes `are' a laughter to it, At every fenced place it doth laugh, And it heapeth up dust, and captureth it.

  • Job 5:3-4
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    3I -- I have seen the perverse taking root, And I mark his habitation straightway,

    4Far are his sons from safety, And they are bruised in the gate, And there is no deliverer.

  • 3Wherefore have we been reckoned as cattle? We have been defiled in your eyes!

  • 9Ashamed have been the wise, They have been affrighted, and are captured, Lo, against a word of Jehovah they kicked, And the wisdom of what -- have they?

  • 14Their soul dieth in youth, And their life among the defiled.

  • 15Folly is bound up in the heart of a youth, The rod of chastisement putteth it far from him.

  • 14With kings and counsellors of earth, These building wastes for themselves.

  • 30They have not consented to my counsel, They have despised all my reproof,

  • 9That a rebellious people `is' this, sons -- liars, Sons not willing to hear the law of Jehovah.

  • 22And I am brutish, and do not know. A beast I have been with Thee.

  • 10And wander continually do his sons, Yea, they have begged, And have sought out of their dry places.

  • 7Who are panting for the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, And the way of the humble they turn aside, And a man and his father go unto the damsel, So as to pollute My holy name.

  • 5Those eating of dainties have been desolate in out-places, Those supported on scarlet have embraced dunghills.

  • 13This their way `is' folly for them, And their posterity with their sayings are pleased. Selah.

  • 12On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.

  • 12and the sons of Eli `are' sons of worthlessness, they have not known Jehovah.

  • 6As to the worthless -- As a thorn driven away `are' all of them, For -- not by hand are they taken;

  • 11`Our steps now have compassed `him';' Their eyes they set to turn aside in the land.

  • 6A brutish man doth not know, And a fool understandeth not this; --

  • 18They are as straw before wind, And as chaff a hurricane hath stolen away,

  • 15If I have said, `I recount thus,' Lo, a generation of Thy sons I have deceived.

  • 24High they were `for' a little, and they are not, And they have been brought low. As all `others' they are shut up, And as the head of an ear of corn cut off.

  • 10For while princes `are' perplexed, And with their drink are drunken, They have been consumed as stubble fully dried.

  • 3And their honourable ones have sent their little ones to the water, They have come unto ditches, They have not found water, They have turned back -- their vessels empty! They have been ashamed, And have blushed and covered their head.

  • 1To the Overseer. -- `On a disease.' -- An instruction, by David. A fool said in his heart, `There is no God.' They have done corruptly, Yea, they have done abominable iniquity, There is none doing good.