Job ridicules the fathers of young men

30 “But now men who are younger than I am make fun of me—

men whose fathers I greatly despised,

with the result that I would not even have allowed them to help my dogs guard my sheep.

2 They were men who were old and ◄weak/worn out►;

so ◄what could I gain from them working for me?/I would have gained nothing from them working for me.► [RHQ]

3 They were very poor and hungry,

with the result that they chewed on roots at night

in dry and desolate places.

4 They pulled up plants in the desert and ate them

and warmed themselves by burning the roots of broom trees.

5 Everyone shouted at them as though they were thieves

and expelled them from their areas.

6 They were forced to live in caves in the hills,

in holes in the ground, and in the sides of cliffs.

7 In the bushes they howled like animals because they were hungry,

and they huddled together under thornbushes.

8 They were people without good sense,

whose names no one knows;

they have been expelled from the land where they were born.