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Job Chapter 30 verse 2 Holy Bible

ASV Job 30:2

Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
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BBE Job 30:2

Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.
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DARBY Job 30:2

Yea, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished?
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KJV Job 30:2

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
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WBT Job 30:2

Yes, to what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age had perished?
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WEB Job 30:2

Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, Men in whom ripe age has perished?
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YLT Job 30:2

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

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 2. - Yes, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me? Men, who had no such strength in their hands as to yield an employer any profit - poor, weak creatures, in whom old age (rather, manly vigour) was perished. An effete race seems to be pointed at, without strength or stamina, nerveless, spiritless, "destined to early decay and premature death;" but how they had sunk into such a condition is not apparent. Too often such remanents are merely tribes physically weak, whom more powerful ones have starved and stunted, driving them into the least productive regions, and in every way making life hard for them.

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(2) Whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, is the description of the fathers; Job 30:3 seqq. describes their children. The people here spoken of seem to have been somewhat similar to those known to the ancients as Troglodytes (Herod. iv. 183, &c.), the inhabitants of caves, who lived an outcast life and had manners and customs of their own. They are desolate with want and famine. They flee into the wilderness on the eve of wasteness and desolation, or when all is dark (yester night), waste, and desolate. It is evident that Job must have been familiar with a people of this kind, an alien and proscribed race living in the way he mentions.