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Selected Verse: Job 30:8 - Strong Concordance
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Job 30:8 |
Strong Concordance |
They were children [01121] of fools [05036], yea, children [01121] of base men [08034]: they were viler [05217] than the earth [0776]. |
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King James |
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
fools--that is, the impious and abandoned (Sa1 25:25).
base--nameless, low-born rabble.
viler than, &c.--rather, they were driven or beaten out of the land. The Horites in Mount Seir (Gen 14:6 with which compare Gen 36:20-21; Deu 2:12, Deu 2:22) were probably the aborigines, driven out by the tribe to which Job's ancestors belonged; their name means troglodytÃ&brvbr;, or "dwellers in caves." To these Job alludes here (Job 30:1-8, and Gen 24:4-8, which compare together). |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
They were children of fools - The word rendered "fools" נבל nâbâl, means,
(1) stupid, foolish; and
(2) abandoned, impious; compare Sa1 25:3, Sa1 25:25.
Here it means the worthless, the refuse of society, the abandoned. They had no respectable parentage. Umbreit, "A brood of infamy." Coverdale, "Children of fools and villains."
Children of base men - Margin, as in Hebrew, "men of no name." They were men of no reputation; whose ancestors had in no way been distinguished; possibly meaning, also, that they herded together as beasts without even a name.
They were viler than the earth - Gesenius renders this, "They are frightened out of the land." The Hebrew word (כאה) means "to chide, to upbraid," and then in the niphal "to be chidden away," or "to be driven off." The sense is, as an impious and low-born race they were driven out of the land. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Children of fools - Children of nabal; children without a name; persons of no consideration, and descendants of such.
Viler than the earth - Rather, driven out of the land; persons not fit for civil society. |
4 But thou shalt go [03212] unto my country [0776], and to my kindred [04138], and take [03947] a wife [0802] unto my son [01121] Isaac [03327].
5 And the servant [05650] said [0559] unto him, Peradventure the woman [0802] will not be willing [014] to follow [03212] me [0310] unto this land [0776]: must I needs bring [07725] thy son [01121] again [07725] unto the land [0776] from whence thou camest [03318]?
6 And Abraham [085] said [0559] unto him, Beware [08104] thou that thou bring [07725] not [06435] my son [01121] thither again [07725].
7 The LORD [03068] God [0430] of heaven [08064], which took me [03947] from my father's [01] house [01004], and from the land [0776] of my kindred [04138], and which spake [01696] unto me, and that sware [07650] unto me, saying [0559], Unto thy seed [02233] will I give [05414] this land [0776]; he shall send [07971] his angel [04397] before thee [06440], and thou shalt take [03947] a wife [0802] unto my son [01121] from thence.
8 And if the woman [0802] will not be willing [014] to follow [03212] thee [0310], then thou shalt be clear [05352] from this my oath [07621]: only bring [07725] not my son [01121] thither again [07725].
1 But now they that are younger [06810] [03117] than I have me in derision [07832], whose fathers [01] I would have disdained [03988] to have set [07896] with the dogs [03611] of my flock [06629].
2 Yea, whereto [04100] might the strength [03581] of their hands [03027] profit me, in whom old age [03624] was perished [06]?
3 For want [02639] and famine [03720] they were solitary [01565]; fleeing [06207] into the wilderness [06723] in former time [0570] desolate [07722] and waste [04875].
4 Who cut up [06998] mallows [04408] by the bushes [07880], and juniper [07574] roots [08328] for their meat [03899].
5 They were driven forth [01644] from among [01460] men, (they cried [07321] after them as after a thief [01590];)
6 To dwell [07931] in the clifts [06178] of the valleys [05158], in caves [02356] of the earth [06083], and in the rocks [03710].
7 Among the bushes [07880] they brayed [05101]; under the nettles [02738] they were gathered together [05596].
8 They were children [01121] of fools [05036], yea, children [01121] of base men [08034]: they were viler [05217] than the earth [0776].
22 As he did [06213] to the children [01121] of Esau [06215], which dwelt [03427] in Seir [08165], when he destroyed [08045] the Horims [02752] from before [06440] them; and they succeeded [03423] them, and dwelt [03427] in their stead even unto this day [03117]:
12 The Horims [02752] also dwelt [03427] in Seir [08165] beforetime [06440]; but the children [01121] of Esau [06215] succeeded [03423] them, when they had destroyed [08045] them from before [06440] them, and dwelt [03427] in their stead; as Israel [03478] did [06213] unto the land [0776] of his possession [03425], which the LORD [03068] gave [05414] unto them.
20 These are the sons [01121] of Seir [08165] the Horite [02752], who inhabited [03427] the land [0776]; Lotan [03877], and Shobal [07732], and Zibeon [06649], and Anah [06034],
21 And Dishon [01787], and Ezer [0687], and Dishan [01789]: these are the dukes [0441] of the Horites [02752], the children [01121] of Seir [08165] in the land [0776] of Edom [0123].
6 And the Horites [02752] in their mount [02042] Seir [08165], unto Elparan [0364], which is by [05921] the wilderness [04057].
25 Let [07760] not my lord [0113], I pray thee, regard [03820] this man [0376] of Belial [01100], even Nabal [05037]: for as his name [08034] is, so is he; Nabal [05037] is his name [08034], and folly [05039] is with him: but I thine handmaid [0519] saw [07200] not the young men [05288] of my lord [0113], whom thou didst send [07971].
25 Let [07760] not my lord [0113], I pray thee, regard [03820] this man [0376] of Belial [01100], even Nabal [05037]: for as his name [08034] is, so is he; Nabal [05037] is his name [08034], and folly [05039] is with him: but I thine handmaid [0519] saw [07200] not the young men [05288] of my lord [0113], whom thou didst send [07971].
3 Now the name [08034] of the man [0376] was Nabal [05037]; and the name [08034] of his wife [0802] Abigail [026]: and she was a woman [0802] of good [02896] understanding [07922], and of a beautiful [03303] countenance [08389]: but the man [0376] was churlish [07186] and evil [07451] in his doings [04611]; and he was of the house of Caleb [03614].