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Job 30:2

Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
Job 30:2 · King James Version

In other versions

  • Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.

    ASV

  • Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.

    BBE

  • Yea, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished?

    DBY

  • Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, Men in whom ripe age has perished?

    WEB

  • Also -- the power of their hands, why `is it' to me? On them hath old age perished.

    YLT

  • Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

    ENG

  • Yes, to what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age had perished?

    WBT

  • What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?

    BSB

In context

1But 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.

2Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

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