2Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?


In Context

1 "But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

2 Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?

3 Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.

4 In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom tree.

Job 30:2 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

30:2Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

30:2The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

30:2Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:2Yea, whereto should the strength of their hands profit me, men in whom vigour hath perished?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

30:2Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:2Yes, to what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age had perished?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

30:2Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

30:2Also — the power of their hands, why is it to me? On them hath old age perished.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

30:2Yes, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?