Job 30:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, In whom old age was perished?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² Yes, how could the strength of their hands profit me? They were men whose ripe age and vigor had perished.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

² Their strength, what’s it to me, their energy having perished?

Catholic Public Domain Version

² the strength of whose hands was nothing to me, and they were considered unworthy of life itself.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

Job 30:2 Cross References

Job 30:1

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

Job 30:3

They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground; in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

Ecclesiastes 12:1

Remember also thy Creator in the days of thy youth, or ever the evil days come, and the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;