Job 30:1

KJV1611 – Modern English

But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

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  • Job 12:4 : 4 I am like one mocked by his neighbor, who calls upon God, and He answers him: the just upright man is laughed to scorn.
  • Job 19:13-19 : 13 He has put my brothers far from me, and my acquaintances are truly estranged from me. 14 My relatives have failed, and my close friends have forgotten me. 15 Those who dwell in my house and my maids count me as a stranger; I am an alien in their sight. 16 I called my servant, and he gave me no answer; I pleaded with him with my mouth. 17 My breath is strange to my wife, though I pleaded for the children's sake of my own body. 18 Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me. 19 All my close friends abhorred me; and those whom I loved have turned against me.
  • Job 29:8-9 : 8 The young men saw me and hid themselves; even the aged arose and stood. 9 The princes refrained from speaking, and laid their hands on their mouths. 10 The nobles kept silence, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
  • Ps 35:15-16 : 15 But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me, and did not cease: 16 With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.
  • Ps 69:12 : 12 Those who sit in the gate speak against me, and I was the song of the drunkards.
  • Isa 3:5 : 5 And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor; the child shall act proudly against the elder, and the vile against the honorable.
  • Mark 14:65 : 65 And some began to spit on him, and to cover his face and to beat him, and to say to him, Prophesy; and the servants struck him with the palms of their hands.
  • Mark 15:17-20 : 17 And they clothed him with purple, and twisted a crown of thorns, and put it on his head, 18 And began to salute him, Hail, King of the Jews! 19 And they struck him on the head with a reed, and did spit upon him, and bowing their knees, worshiped him. 20 And when they had mocked him, they took off the purple robe from him, and put his own clothes on him, and led him out to crucify him.
  • Luke 23:14 : 14 Said to them, You have brought this man to me as one who misleads the people. And behold, I have examined Him in your presence, and have found no fault in this man concerning those things of which you accuse Him.
  • Luke 23:18 : 18 And they all cried out at once, saying, Away with this man, and release to us Barabbas:
  • Luke 23:35 : 35 And the people stood looking on. But the rulers, with them, sneered, saying, He saved others; let Him save Himself if He is Christ, the chosen of God.
  • Luke 23:39 : 39 Then one of the criminals who were hanged blasphemed Him, saying, If You are Christ, save Yourself and us.
  • Acts 17:5 : 5 But the Jews who did not believe, moved with envy, took certain troublemakers from the marketplace, and gathered a mob, set all the city in an uproar, and attacked the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
  • Titus 1:12 : 12 One of them, a prophet of their own, said, 'Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.'
  • 2 Kgs 2:23 : 23 And he went up from there to Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, and said to him, Go up, you baldhead; go up, you baldhead.

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    2Indeed, how might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age has perished?

  • Job 19:18-19
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    18Yes, young children despised me; I arose, and they spoke against me.

    19All my close friends abhorred me; and those whom I loved have turned against me.

  • Job 15:10
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    10With us are both the gray-headed and very aged men, much older than your father.

  • Job 30:7-13
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    7Among the bushes they brayed, under the nettles they gathered together.

    8They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

    9And now I am their song, yes, I am their byword.

    10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and do not hesitate to spit in my face.

    11Because He has loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

    12Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

    13They mar my path, they advance my calamity, they have no helper.

  • Job 29:8
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    8The young men saw me and hid themselves; even the aged arose and stood.

  • Ps 35:15-16
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    15But in my adversity they rejoiced, and gathered themselves together; yes, the abjects gathered themselves together against me, and I knew it not; they tore me, and did not cease:

    16With hypocritical mockers in feasts, they gnashed upon me with their teeth.

  • Prov 30:31
    71%

    31A greyhound, a male goat also, and a king against whom there is no rising up.

  • Ps 31:11
    71%

    11I was a reproach among all my enemies, but especially among my neighbors, and a fear to my acquaintances: those who saw me outside fled from me.

  • Job 17:2
    71%

    2Are there not mockers with me? And does not my eye continue in their provocation?

  • Lam 3:14
    71%

    14I was a ridicule to all my people; their song all the day.

  • Ps 22:16
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    16For dogs have surrounded me; the assembly of the wicked have enclosed me; they pierced my hands and my feet.

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    10They gape upon me with their mouth; they strike me on the cheek reproachfully; they gather themselves together against me.

  • Ps 73:15
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    15If I say, I will speak thus; behold, I would offend against the generation of Your children.

  • Prov 17:6
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    6Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers.

  • Job 31:20-21
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    20If his loins have not blessed me, and if he were not warmed with the fleece of my sheep;

    21If I have lifted my hand against the fatherless, when I saw my help in the gate;

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  • Ps 22:6-7
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    7All who see me laugh me to scorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, saying,

  • Job 16:7-8
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    7But now he has made me weary; you have made desolate all my company.

    8You have filled me with wrinkles, which is a witness against me, and my leanness rising up in me bears witness to my face.

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    51The proud have had me greatly in derision, yet I have not turned aside from Your law.

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    30They would have none of my counsel and despised all my rebuke.

  • Ps 71:9
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    17The eye that mocks his father and despises to obey his mother, the ravens of the valley shall pick it out, and the young eagles shall eat it.

  • Isa 3:5
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    5And the people shall be oppressed, every one by another, and every one by his neighbor; the child shall act proudly against the elder, and the vile against the honorable.

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    3These ten times you have reproached me; you are not ashamed that you make yourselves strange to me.

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    38These twenty years have I been with you; your ewes and your she goats have not miscarried, and the rams of your flock have I not eaten.

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    13They gaped at me with their mouths, like a ravening and roaring lion.

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    26I also will laugh at your calamity; I will mock when your fear comes;

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    11They have now surrounded us in our steps; they have set their eyes, bending down to the earth.

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  • Job 16:20
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    20My friends scorn me, but my eye pours out tears to God.

  • Ezek 34:19
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    19And as for my flock, they eat what you have trodden with your feet; and they drink what you have fouled with your feet.

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    24If I smiled at them, they could hardly believe it; and the light of my countenance they did not cast down.

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    11He has turned aside my ways and torn me to pieces; He has made me desolate.

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    6And Elihu, the son of Barachel the Buzite, answered and said, I am young, and you are very old; therefore I was afraid, and did not dare to show you my opinion.