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Job 30:1

Context
Job’s Present Misery

30:1 “But now they mock me, those who are younger 1  than I,

whose fathers I disdained too much 2 

to put with my sheep dogs. 3 

1 tn Heb “smaller than I for days.”

2 tn Heb “who I disdained their fathers to set…,” meaning “whose fathers I disdained to set.” The relative clause modifies the young fellows who mock; it explains that Job did not think highly enough of them to put them with the dogs. The next verse will explain why.

3 sn Job is mocked by young fellows who come from low extraction. They mocked their elders and their betters. The scorn is strong here – dogs were despised as scavengers.



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