“They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.”
Sons of the foolish, even sons of the base; they were scourged out of the land, establishing that the mockers are of utterly base origin, socially and morally debased, driven out by community judgment. The reference to them as foolish and base suggests both intellectual and moral deficiency. The fact that they were scourged out—violently driven away—emphasizes community judgment against them. The verse establishes the contemptibility of the very people who now mock Job.
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