301 "But now those younger than I mock me, Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock . 2 "Indeed , what good was the strength of their hands to me? Vigor had perished from them. 3 "From want and famine they are gaunt Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation , 4 Who pluck mallow by the bushes , And whose food is the root of the broom shrub . 5 "They are driven from the community ; They shout against them as against a thief , 6 So that they dwell in dreadful valleys , In holes of the earth and of the rocks . 7 "Among the bushes they cry out; Under the nettles they are gathered together . 8 "Fools e , even those without a name , They were scourged from the land .
Matthew Henry's Commentary on Job 30:1-8
Commentary on Job 30:1-14
(Read Job 30:1-14)
Job contrasts his present condition with his former honour and authority. What little cause have men to be ambitious or proud of that which may be so easily lost, and what little confidence is to be put in it! We should not be cast down if we are despised, reviled, and hated by wicked men. We should look to Jesus, who endured the contradiction of sinners.