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Job 30:2 Cross-References
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“Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?”
Job 30:2 (KJV)
Commentary on Job 30:2
Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me (גַּם־כֹּחַ יְדֵיהֶם לָמָּה לִּי)—Job describes outcasts so degraded that even their labor (כֹּחַ, koach, strength) was worthless. The rhetorical question expresses contempt. In whom old age was perished (עָלֵימוֹ אָבַד כָּלַח)—The kalach (כָּלַח, vigor of old age, ripeness) had 'perished' (אָבַד, avad), meaning they aged prematurely through hardship, never reaching dignified maturity.This begins Job's devastating lament about his social reversal (Job 30:1-15)—those he once pitied now mock him. The Hebrew emphasizes the shocking inversio...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
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