Księga Hioba 30:1

Biblia Tysiąclecia

Ale teraz śmieją się ze mnie młodsi nad mię w latach, których ojcówbym ja był nie chciał położyć ze psami trzody mojej.

Parallel Translations

Biblia Brzeska (1563)
A teraz się oto ze mnie śmieją młodszy niżli ja, których ojcom nie poruczył bych był psów trzody mojej.

Biblia Gdańska (1632)
Ale teraz śmieją się ze mnie młodsi nad mię w latach, których ojcówbym ja był nie chciał położyć ze psami trzody mojej.

Nowe Przymierze Zaremba
A teraz śmieją się ze mnie młodsi ode mnie wiekiem, ci, których ojców nie chciałbym postawić przy psach moich stad.

Nowa Biblia Gdańska (2012)
Teraz mnie wyśmiewają młodsi ode mnie w latach; nawet ci, których ojców nie chciałbym postawić z psamimojej trzody.

Uwspółcześniona Biblia Gdańska
Ale teraz śmieją się ze mnie młodsi ode mnie, ci, których ojców nie uznałbym za godnych, by postawić ich z psami swojej trzody.

Biblia Warszawska
A teraz śmieją się ze mnie młodsi ode mnie wiekiem, których ojców nie chciałbym postawić przy psach mojej trzody.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

they that are: Job 19:13-19, Job 29:8-10, 2 Kings 2:23, Isaiah 3:5

younger than I: Heb. of fewer days than I

whose: Psalms 35:15, Psalms 35:16, Psalms 69:12, Mark 14:65, Mark 15:17-20, Luke 23:14, Luke 23:18, Luke 23:35, Luke 23:39, Acts 17:5, Titus 1:12

Reciprocal: Genesis 21:9 - mocking Judges 11:3 - vain men Nehemiah 2:19 - they Job 12:4 - one mocked Job 19:9 - stripped Job 19:18 - Yea Psalms 42:4 - When Psalms 59:15 - wander Lamentations 1:7 - remembered Lamentations 3:14 - General Lamentations 5:14 - elders Ezekiel 36:3 - and are Philemon 1:11 - unprofitable Hebrews 2:8 - but

Gill's Notes on the Bible

But now [they that are] younger than I have me in derision,.... Meaning not his three friends, who were men in years, and were not, at least all of them, younger than he, see Job 15:10; nor were they of such a mean extraction, and such low-lived creatures, and of such characters as here described; with such Job would never have held a correspondence in the time of his prosperity; both they and their fathers, in all appearance, were both great and good; but these were a set of profligate and abandoned wretches, who, as soon as Job's troubles came upon him, derided him, mocked and jeered at him, both by words and gestures; and which they might do even before his three friends came to him, and during their seven days' silence with him, and while this debate was carrying on between them, encouraged unto it by their behaviour towards him; to be derided by any is disagreeable to flesh and blood, though it is the common lot of good men, especially in poor and afflicted circumstances, and to be bore patiently; but to be so used by junior and inferior persons is an aggravation of it; as Job was, even by young children, as was also the prophet Elisha, 2 Kings 2:23; see Job 19:18;

whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock; either to have compared them with the dogs that kept his flock from the wolves, having some good qualities in them which they had not; for what more loving or faithful to their masters, or more vigilant and watchful of their affairs? or to set them at meat with the dogs of his flock; they were unworthy of it, though they would have been glad of the food his dogs ate of, they living better than they, whose meat were mallows and juniper roots, Job 30:4; and would have jumped at it; as the prodigal in want and famine, as those men were, would fain have filled his belly with husks that swine did eat; but as no man gave them to him, so Job disdained to give the meat of his dogs to such as those; or to set them "over" m the dogs of his flock, to be the keepers of them, to be at the head of his dogs, and to have the command of them; see the phrase in 2 Samuel 3:8; or else to join them with his dogs, to keep his flock with them; they were such worthless faithless wretches, that they were not to be trusted with the care of his flock along with his dogs. It was usual in ancient times, as well as in ours, for dogs to be made use of in keeping flocks of sheep from beasts of prey, as appears from Orpheus n, Homer o, Theocritus p, and other writers: and if the fathers of those that derided Job were such mean, base, worthless creatures, what must their sons be, inferior to them in age and honour, if any degree of honour belonged to them?

m עם כלבי "super canes", Noldius, p. 739. No. 1825. n De Lapidibus, Hypoth. ver. 53, 54. o Iliad. 10. ως κυνες περι μηλα, &c. v. 183. & Iliad 12. v. 303. p χ' αμιν εστι κυων φιλοποιμνιος, &c. Idyll. 5. v. 106. & Idyll. 6. v. 9, 10.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

But now they that are younger than I - Margin, “of fewer days.” It is not probable that Job here refers to his three friends. It is not possible to determine their age with accuracy, but in Job 15:10, they claim that there were with them old and very aged men, much older than the father of Job. Though that place may possibly refer not to themselves but to those who held the same opinions with them, yet none of those who engaged in the discussion, except Ehhu Job 32:6, are represented as young men. They were the contemporaries of Job; men who are ranked as his friends; and men who showed that they had had oppoptunities for long and careful observation. The reference here, therefore, is to the fact that while, in the days of his prosperity, even the aged and the honorable rose up to do him reverence, now he was the object of contempt even by the young and the worthless. The Orientals would feel this much. It was among the chief virtues with them to show respect to the aged, and their sensibilites were especially keen in regard to any indignity shown to them by the young.

Whose fathers I would have disdained - Who are the children of the lowest and most degraded of the community. How deep the calamity to be so fallen as to be the subject of derision by such men!

To have set with the dogs of my flock - To have associated with my dogs in guarding my flock. That is, they were held in less esteem than his dogs. This was the lowest conceivable point of debasement. The Orientals had no language that would express greater contempt of anyone than to call him a dog; compare Deuteronomy 23:18; 1Sa 17:43; 1 Samuel 24:14; 2 Samuel 3:8; 2 Samuel 9:8; 2 Samuel 16:9; 2 Kings 8:13; Note Isaiah 66:3.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER XXX

Job proceeds to lament the change of his former condition, and

the contempt into which his adversity had brought him, 1-15.

Pathetically describes the afflictions of his body and mind,

16-31.

NOTES ON CHAP. XXX

Verse Job 30:1. But now they that are younger than I have me in derision — Compare this with Job 29:8, where he speaks of the respect he had from the youth while in the days of his prosperity. Now he is no longer affluent, and they are no longer respectful.

Dogs of my flock. — Persons who were not deemed sufficiently respectable to be trusted with the care of those dogs which were the guardians of my flocks. Not confidential enough to be made shepherds, ass-keepers, or camel-drivers; nor even to have the care of the dogs by which the flocks were guarded. This saying is what we call an expression of sovereign contempt.