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The Book of Job, Chapter 30, Verse 2

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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.
King James Version
Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished?
American Standard Version
Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
New English Translation
Moreover, the strength of their hands– what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished;
World English Bible
Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
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For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
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Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.
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They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;)
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To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.
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Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
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[They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
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And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
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They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
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Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
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Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.