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Job 30:2 Meaning & Commentary – The Strength of Youth

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

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

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I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.

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If I laughed on them, they believed it not; and the light of my countenance they cast not down.

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And they waited for me as for the rain; and they opened their mouth wide as for the latter rain.

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After my words they spake not again; and my speech dropped upon them.

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Unto me men gave ear, and waited, and kept silence at my counsel.

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My glory was fresh in me, and my bow was renewed in my hand.

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My root was spread out by the waters, and the dew lay all night upon my branch.

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Then I said, I shall die in my nest, and I shall multiply my days as the sand.