Scripture · Old Testament
Job 30:2
Job 30:2 is verse 2 of Job chapter 30, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
King James Version
Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
World English Bible
Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
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Job 30:1–4 · Berean Standard Bible
1 “But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.
2 What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
3 Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
4 They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
Read all of Job 30Hebrew words
גַּםalsoכֹּ֣חַ[the] strength ofיְ֭דֵיהֶםhands theirלָ֣מָּה<to> why?לִּ֑יto <the> meעָ֝לֵ֗ימוֹon themאָ֣בַדit had perishedכָּֽלַחvigor
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