Job 30:2
King James Version (KJV)
Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
In context
1 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.
2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
Job 30:2 in every translation
- KJV King James Version
- Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
- WEB World English Bible
- Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
- ASV American Standard Version
- Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- Also — the power of their hands, why [is it] to me? On them hath old age perished.
- DBY Darby Translation
- Yea, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished?
- WBS Webster Bible
- Yes, to what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age had perished?