King James Version
Job 30:2 in the King James Version says “Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?” — study this verse from Job chapter 30 with commentary, cross-references, and original Hebrew word analysis.
“Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?”
Job 30:2 · KJV
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. younger: Heb. of fewer days than I
Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. solitary: or, dark as the night in: Heb. yesternight
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
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properly, assemblage; used only adverbially also, even, yea, though; often repeated as correl. both...and
“might the strength”
H3581vigor, literally (force, in a good or a bad sense) or figuratively (capacity, means, produce)
“of their hands”
H3027a hand (the open one [indicating power, means, direction, etc.], in distinction from h3709, the closed one); used (as noun, adverb, etc.) in a great v
“Yea whereto”
H4100properly, interrogative what? (including how? why? when?); but also exclamation, what! (including how!), or indefinitely what (including whatever, and
above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applications
“was perished”
H6properly, to wander away, i.e., lose oneself; by implication to perish (causative, destroy)
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