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Job 30:1 — King James Version← Study notes

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


Job 30:1Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 30:113 words
HebrewMeaning
וְ/עַתָּ֤הwəʿatāh
and nowconjH6258
now · straightway · this time · whereas
שָֽׂחֲק֣וּśāḥăqw
they have laughedverbH7832
have in derision · laugh · make merry · mock ···
עָלַ/י֮ʿālay
on mepronH5921
according to · after · against · among ···
צְעִירִ֥יםṣəʿiyriym
people youngadjH6810
little · small · young(-er · -est)
מִמֶּ֗/נִּיmimeniy
more than mepronH4480
after · among · at · because of ···
לְ/יָ֫מִ֥יםləyāmiym
to dayspronH3117
always · chronicals · continually · daily ···
אֲשֶׁרʾăšer
whomparticleH834
after · alike · because · every ···
מָאַ֥סְתִּיmāʾasətiy
I rejectedverbH3988
cast away · contemn · despise · disdain ···
אֲבוֹתָ֑/םʾăbwōtām
fathers theirnounH1
father · patrimony · principal. Compare names in 'Abi-'
לָ֝/שִׁ֗יתlāšiyt
to putpronH7896
appoint · array · bring · consider ···
עִםʿim
withpronH5973
against · and · as · before ···
כַּלְבֵ֥יkaləbēy
the dogs ofnounH3611
צֹאנִֽ/יṣōʾniy
flock mynounH6629
flock · lamb · sheep(-cote · -fold ···
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

Church Fathers on Job 30:1

But now they that are younger than I have me in derision. All heretics when compared to the age of the Church Universal are fitly called ‘younger’ in time, because they went forth out of her, not she out of them. Whence it is rightly also said by John; They went out from us, but they were not of us: for if they had been of us, they would no doubt have continued with us. For ‘they that are younger in time deride Holy Church,’ when they that went out from her, set at nought…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 20 §14
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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