Job 30:8
New International Version
A base and nameless brood, they were driven out of the land.

New Living Translation
They are nameless fools, outcasts from society.

English Standard Version
A senseless, a nameless brood, they have been whipped out of the land.

Berean Standard Bible
A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.

King James Bible
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

New King James Version
They were sons of fools, Yes, sons of vile men; They were scourged from the land.

New American Standard Bible
“Worthless fellows, even those without a name, They were cast out from the land.

NASB 1995
“Fools, even those without a name, They were scourged from the land.

NASB 1977
“Fools, even those without a name, They were scourged from the land.

Legacy Standard Bible
Wicked fools, even those without a name, They were scourged from the land.

Amplified Bible
They are the sons of [worthless and nameless] fools, They have been driven out of the land.

Christian Standard Bible
Foolish men, without even a name. They were forced to leave the land.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Foolish men, without even a name. They were forced to leave the land.

American Standard Version
They are children of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scouraged out of the land.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The foolish children will be overthrown with evil children; there they will be leveled from the Earth

Brenton Septuagint Translation
They are sons of fools and vile men, whose name and glory are quenched from off the earth.

Contemporary English Version
And like senseless donkeys they are chased away.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.

English Revised Version
They are children of fools, yea, children of base men; they were scourged out of the land.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Godless fools and worthless people are forced out of the land with whips.

Good News Translation
A worthless bunch of nameless nobodies! They were driven out of the land.

International Standard Version
Sons of fools and of uncertain reputation, they have been driven from the land by scourging."

JPS Tanakh 1917
They are children of churls, yea, children of ignoble men; They were scourged out of the land.

Literal Standard Version
Sons of folly—even sons without name, | They have been struck from the land.

Majority Standard Bible
A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.

New American Bible
Irresponsible, of no account, they were driven out of the land.

NET Bible
Sons of senseless and nameless people, they were driven out of the land with whips.

New Revised Standard Version
A senseless, disreputable brood, they have been whipped out of the land.

New Heart English Bible
They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.

Webster's Bible Translation
They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

World English Bible
They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land.

Young's Literal Translation
Sons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.

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Context
Job's Honor Turned into Contempt
7They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles. 8A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land. 9And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.…

Cross References
Matthew 20:19
and will deliver Him over to the Gentiles to be mocked and flogged and crucified. And on the third day He will be raised to life."

Job 30:7
They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.

Job 30:9
And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

Psalm 35:15
But when I stumbled, they assembled in glee; they gathered together against me. Assailants I did not know slandered me without ceasing.

Nahum 3:6
I will pelt you with filth and treat you with contempt; I will make a spectacle of you.


Treasury of Scripture

They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

children

2 Kings 8:18,27
And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab: for the daughter of Ahab was his wife: and he did evil in the sight of the LORD…

2 Chronicles 22:3
He also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab: for his mother was his counseller to do wickedly.

Psalm 49:10-13
For he seeth that wise men die, likewise the fool and the brutish person perish, and leave their wealth to others…

fools

Proverbs 1:7,22
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge: but fools despise wisdom and instruction…

Proverbs 16:22
Understanding is a wellspring of life unto him that hath it: but the instruction of fools is folly.

base men.

Job 40:4
Behold, I am vile; what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

Psalm 15:4
In whose eyes a vile person is contemned; but he honoureth them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth to his own hurt, and changeth not.

Isaiah 32:6
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

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Job 30
1. Job's honor is turned into extreme contempt
15. and his prosperity into calamity














(8) They were viler than the earth.--Rather, They are scourged out of the land, or are outcasts from the land.

Verse 8. - They were children of fools. The physical degeneracy whereof Job has been speaking is accompanied in most instances by extreme mental incapacity. Some of the degraded races cannot count beyond four or five; others have not more than two or three hundred words in their vocabulary. They are all of low intellect, though occasionally extremely artful and cunning. Yea, children of base men; literally, children of no name. Their race had never made for itself any name, but was unknown and insignificant. They were viler than the earth; rather, they were scourged out of the land. This must not be understood literally. It is a rhetorical repetition of what had been already said in ver. 5. The expression may be compared with the tale in Herodotus, that when the Scythian slaves rebelled and took up arms, the Scythians scourged them into subjection (Herod., 4:3, 4).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
A senseless
נָ֭בָל (nā·ḇāl)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 5036: Foolish, senseless

and
גַּם־ (gam-)
Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

nameless
שֵׁ֑ם (šêm)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8034: A name

brood,
בְּנֵ֣י (bə·nê)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 1121: A son

they were driven
נִ֝כְּא֗וּ (nik·kə·’ū)
Verb - Nifal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 5217: To smite, drive away

off
מִן־ (min-)
Preposition
Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of

the land.
הָאָֽרֶץ׃ (hā·’ā·reṣ)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 776: Earth, land


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