NET Bible
"Moreover, the strength of their hands– what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished;"
— Job 30:2, NET Bible
“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?”
“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?”
Job’s Present Misery“But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.
Moreover, the strength of their hands– what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished;
gaunt with want and hunger, they would roam the parched land, by night a desolate waste.
By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.
They were banished from the community– people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves–