301 “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? 3 They are gaunt from lack and famine.
They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation. 4 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes.
The roots of the broom are their food. 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. 8 They are children of fools, yes, children of base men.
They were flogged out of 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.