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Job 30:8 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land. "
Job 30:8
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6 so that they live in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
7 They bray among the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles.
8 They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land.
9 “Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
10 They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.
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Job 30:1
"“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs."
Job 30:2
"Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?"
Job 30:3
"They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation."
Job 30:4
"They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food."
Job 30:5
"They are driven out from among men. They cry after them as after a thief,"
Job 30:6
"so that they live in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks."
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