Job 30:2
1 “But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.
What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
3 Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
4 They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
- KJV
- Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
- WEB
- Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
- ASV
- Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
- DARBY
- Yea, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished?
- BLB
- Indeed, the strength of their hands, what [is it] to me? Upon them vigor has perished,
- ÅB
- Hva hjelp kunne jeg også ha av dem, de som har mistet all manndomskraft?
- OTB
- Hva nytte hadde jeg av styrken i deres hender?
Deres kraft hadde forlatt dem. - B1930
- Hvad hjelp kunde jeg også ha av dem, de som har mistet all manndomskraft?