Catholic Public Domain Version
"the strength of whose hands was nothing to me, and they were considered unworthy of life itself. "
— Job 30:2, Catholic Public Domain Version
“Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?”
“Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished. ”
“Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?”
“Moreover, the strength of their hands– what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished;”
“The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.”
“Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.”
“Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?”
But now, those younger in years scorn me, whose fathers I would not have seen fit to place with the dogs of my flock,
the strength of whose hands was nothing to me, and they were considered unworthy of life itself.
They were barren from poverty and hunger; they gnawed in solitude, layered with misfortune and misery.
And they chewed grass and the bark from trees, and the root of junipers was their food.
They took these things from the steep valleys, and when they discovered one of these things, they rushed to the others with a cry.