Job 30:2
“Yea whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom olde age was perished?”
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Job 30:2 Context
1But nowe they that are yonger then I, haue mee in derision, whose fathers I would haue disdained to haue set with the dogs of my flocke. 2Yea whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom olde age was perished? 3For want and famine they were solitarie: flying into the wildernesse in former time desolate and waste: 4Who cut vp mallowes by the bushes, and Iuniper rootes for their meate.
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Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished?
- King James Version
"Indeed, what {good was} the strength of their hands to me? Vigor had perished from them.
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
- American Standard Version (1901)
Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.
- Basic English Bible
Yea, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished?
- Darby Bible
Yes, to what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age had perished?
- Webster's Bible
Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
- World English Bible
Also -- the power of their hands, why [is it] to me? On them hath old age perished.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible