Job 30:2

World English Bible (WEB)

Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

In context

1 “But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.

2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

4 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.

WEB World English Bible: Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
KJV King James Version: Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was 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?