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Job 30:2
Yes, to what [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age had perished?
Job 30:2 · Webster Bible
Job 30:2 in other translations
Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
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In context
1 But now [they that are] younger than I, have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
2 Yes, to what [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age had perished?
3 For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their food.
5 They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them, as [after] a thief;)
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