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Their vigor has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/job/30.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“Indeed, what <i>good was</i> the strength of their hands to me? Vigor had perished from them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/job/30.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me? Vigor had perished from them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/job/30.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“Indeed, what <i>good was</i> the strength of their hands to me? Vigor had perished from them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/job/30.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />Indeed, what <i>good was</i> the strength of their hands to me? Vigor had perished from them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/job/30.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“Indeed, how could the strength of their hands profit me? Vigor had perished from them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/job/30.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />What use to me was the strength of their hands? Their vigor had left them.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/job/30.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />What use to me was the strength of their hands? Their vigor had left them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/job/30.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/job/30.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />And those who insult me are helpless themselves. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/job/30.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/job/30.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />Of what use to me was the strength of their hands? Their strength is gone.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/job/30.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />They were a bunch of worn-out men, too weak to do any work for me. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/job/30.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />Furthermore, what could I have gained from men whose strength is gone?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/job/30.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/job/30.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />Moreover, the strength of their hands--what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished; <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/job/30.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/job/30.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Yes, to what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age had perished?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/job/30.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished? <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/job/30.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />Also—the power of their hands, why [is it] to me? On them old age has perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/job/30.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Also -- the power of their hands, why is it to me? On them hath old age perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/job/30.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />Also the strength of their hands wherefore to me? Upon them old age perished.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/job/30.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/job/30.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />the strength of whose hands was nothing to me, and they were considered unworthy of life itself.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/job/30.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Such strength as they had meant nothing to me; their vigor had perished. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/job/30.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />What could I gain from the strength of their hands? All their vigor is gone.<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/job/30.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Whose fathers I have disdained, and did not consider them equal to the dogs of my flocks.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/job/30.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />In those days that I despised their fathers and I did not value them with the dogs of my flocks<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/job/30.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/job/30.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Yea, why had I the strength of their hands? for them the full term <i>of life</i> was lost.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/job/30-2.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="study" id="study"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/XAwuD5NuZq0?start=4403" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/job/30.htm">Job's Honor Turned into Contempt</a></span><br><span class="reftext">1</span>“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs. <span class="reftext">2</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/1571.htm" title="1571: gam- (Conj) -- Also, moreover, yea. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/4100.htm" title="4100: lām·māh (Prep-l:: Interrog) -- What? how? anything. ">What use</a> <a href="/hebrew/lî (Prep:: 1cs) -- ">to me</a> <a href="/hebrew/5921.htm" title="5921: ‘ā·lê·mōw (Prep:: 3mp) -- Properly, the same as al used as a preposition; above, over, upon, or against in a great variety of applications."></a> <a href="/hebrew/3581.htm" title="3581: kō·aḥ (N-msc) -- Or kowach; from an unused root meaning to be firm; vigor, literally or figuratively; also a large lizard.">was the strength</a> <a href="/hebrew/3027.htm" title="3027: yə·ḏê·hem (N-fdc:: 3mp) -- Hand (indicating power, means, direction, etc.)">of their hands,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3624.htm" title="3624: kā·laḥ (N-ms) -- Firm or rugged strength. From an unused root meaning to be complete; maturity.">since their vigor</a> <a href="/hebrew/6.htm" title="6: ’ā·ḇaḏ (V-Qal-Perf-3ms) -- To perish. A primitive root; properly, to wander away, i.e. Lose oneself; by implication to perish.">had left them?</a> </span><span class="reftext">3</span>Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/12-2.htm">Job 12:2-3</a></span><br />“Truly then you are the people with whom wisdom itself will die! / But I also have a mind; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/29-8.htm">Job 29:8-10</a></span><br />the young men saw me and withdrew, and the old men rose to their feet. / The princes refrained from speaking and covered their mouths with their hands. / The voices of the nobles were hushed, and their tongues stuck to the roofs of their mouths.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/32-6.htm">Job 32:6-9</a></span><br />So Elihu son of Barachel the Buzite declared: “I am young in years, while you are old; that is why I was timid and afraid to tell you what I know. / I thought that age should speak, and many years should teach wisdom. / But there is a spirit in a man, the breath of the Almighty, that gives him understanding. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/12-20.htm">Job 12:20-21</a></span><br />He deprives the trusted of speech and takes away the discernment of elders. / He pours out contempt on nobles and disarms the mighty.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/job/29-21.htm">Job 29:21-25</a></span><br />Men listened to me with expectation, waiting silently for my counsel. / After my words, they spoke no more; my speech settled on them like dew. / They waited for me as for rain and drank in my words like spring showers. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/3-5.htm">Isaiah 3:5</a></span><br />The people will oppress one another, man against man, neighbor against neighbor; the young will rise up against the old, and the base against the honorable.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ecclesiastes/4-13.htm">Ecclesiastes 4:13</a></span><br />Better is a poor but wise youth than an old but foolish king who no longer knows how to take a warning.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/proverbs/20-29.htm">Proverbs 20:29</a></span><br />The glory of young men is their strength, and gray hair is the splendor of the old.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_kings/12-6.htm">1 Kings 12:6-11</a></span><br />Then King Rehoboam consulted with the elders who had served his father Solomon during his lifetime. “How do you advise me to respond to these people?” he asked. / They replied, “If you will be a servant to these people and serve them this day, and if you will respond by speaking kind words to them, they will be your servants forever.” / But Rehoboam rejected the advice of the elders; instead, he consulted the young men who had grown up with him and served him. ...<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_timothy/4-12.htm">1 Timothy 4:12</a></span><br />Let no one despise your youth, but set an example for the believers in speech, in conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_corinthians/1-27.htm">1 Corinthians 1:27-29</a></span><br />But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. / He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are, / so that no one may boast in His presence.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/1_peter/5-5.htm">1 Peter 5:5</a></span><br />Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_timothy/3-2.htm">2 Timothy 3:2</a></span><br />For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/47-6.htm">Isaiah 47:6</a></span><br />I was angry with My people; I profaned My heritage, and I placed them under your control. You showed them no mercy; even on the elderly you laid a most heavy yoke.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/lamentations/5-12.htm">Lamentations 5:12-14</a></span><br />Princes have been hung up by their hands; elders receive no respect. / Young men toil at millstones; boys stagger under loads of wood. / The elders have left the city gate; the young men have stopped their music.</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Yes, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/job/22-15.htm">Age</a> <a href="/job/28-25.htm">Force</a> <a href="/job/27-8.htm">Gain</a> <a href="/job/24-21.htm">Good</a> <a href="/job/29-9.htm">Hands</a> <a href="/job/19-5.htm">Indeed</a> <a href="/job/18-17.htm">Perished</a> <a href="/job/29-15.htm">Power</a> <a href="/job/22-3.htm">Profit</a> <a href="/job/5-26.htm">Ripe</a> <a href="/job/27-18.htm">Strength</a> <a href="/job/23-6.htm">Use</a> <a href="/job/21-23.htm">Vigor</a> <a href="/job/15-27.htm">Vigour</a> <a href="/leviticus/6-10.htm">Whereto</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/job/32-6.htm">Age</a> <a href="/job/30-18.htm">Force</a> <a href="/job/35-3.htm">Gain</a> <a href="/job/30-26.htm">Good</a> <a href="/job/31-7.htm">Hands</a> <a href="/job/30-24.htm">Indeed</a> <a href="/psalms/9-3.htm">Perished</a> <a href="/job/30-18.htm">Power</a> <a href="/job/30-13.htm">Profit</a> <a href="/isaiah/28-4.htm">Ripe</a> <a href="/job/30-21.htm">Strength</a> <a href="/job/31-10.htm">Use</a> <a href="/job/33-25.htm">Vigor</a> <a href="/psalms/78-51.htm">Vigour</a> <a href="/isaiah/55-11.htm">Whereto</a><div class="vheading2">Job 30</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/job/30-1.htm">Job's honor is turned into extreme contempt</a></span><br><span class="reftext">15. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/job/30-15.htm">and his prosperity into calamity</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script> <script id="b817b7107f1d4a7997da1b3c33457e03"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=cb0edd8b-b416-47eb-8c6d-3cc96561f7e8&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; </script><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-2'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-0' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-3'> </div><br /><br />  <div id='div-gpt-ad-1529103594582-1' style='max-width: 300px;'> </div><br /><br />  <div align="center" id='div-gpt-ad-1531425649696-0'> </div><br /><br /> <script type="text/javascript"> </script> <script type="text/javascript" src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show_ads.js"> </script><br /><br /> </div> </td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="combox"><div class="padcom"><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading"><a href="/study/job/30.htm">Berean Study Bible</a></div><b>What use to me</b><br />This phrase reflects Job's deep sense of disillusionment and frustration. In the Hebrew text, the word for "use" can be understood as "profit" or "benefit." Job is questioning the value or advantage he could derive from those around him. This rhetorical question underscores his feeling of abandonment and the futility of relying on human strength when divine favor seems withdrawn. Historically, this reflects the ancient Near Eastern understanding of strength and utility, where one's worth was often measured by their ability to contribute physically or materially.<p><b>was the strength of their hands</b><br />The "strength of their hands" symbolizes the physical power and capability of individuals. In Hebrew, "strength" (koach) often denotes not just physical might but also the capacity to achieve or accomplish tasks. Job is lamenting the loss of this strength, which once might have been a source of support or security. In the broader scriptural context, hands are frequently symbolic of action and power (e.g., <a href="/exodus/15-6.htm">Exodus 15:6</a>, "Your right hand, O LORD, is majestic in power"). Job's reflection here is a poignant reminder of the transient nature of human strength compared to the enduring power of God.<p><b>since their vigor had left them</b><br />"Vigor" in this context refers to the vitality and life force that energizes and empowers individuals. The Hebrew word for "vigor" (cheled) can also imply youthfulness or the prime of life. Job is observing that this vigor has departed, leaving those around him weak and ineffective. This loss of vigor can be seen as a metaphor for the spiritual and moral decline that Job perceives in his community. Historically, vigor was highly valued in ancient cultures, often associated with the ability to lead, protect, and provide. Job's lamentation here is not just about physical decline but also about the loss of purpose and direction, both personally and communally.<div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/job/30.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(2) <span class= "bld">Whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, </span>is the description of the fathers; <a href="/job/30-3.htm" title="For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.">Job 30:3</a> <span class= "ital">seqq. </span>describes their children. The people here spoken of seem to have been somewhat similar to those known to the ancients as Troglodytes (Herod. iv. 183, &c.), the inhabitants of caves, who lived an outcast life and had manners and customs of their own. They are desolate with want and famine. They flee into the wilderness on the eve of wasteness and desolation, or when all is dark (yester night), waste, and desolate. It is evident that Job must have been familiar with a people of this kind, an alien and proscribed race living in the way he mentions.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/job/30.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 2.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Yes, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me?</span> Men, who had no such strength in their hands as to yield an employer any profit - poor, weak creatures, <span class="cmt_word">in whom old age</span> (rather, <span class="accented">manly vigour</span>) <span class="cmt_word">was</span> <span class="cmt_word">perished</span>. An effete race seems to be pointed at, without strength or stamina, nerveless, spiritless, "destined to early decay and premature death;" but how they had sunk into such a condition is not apparent. Too often such remanents are merely tribes physically weak, whom more powerful ones have starved and stunted, driving them into the least productive regions, and in every way making life hard for them. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/job/30-2.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">Indeed,</span><br /><span class="heb">גַּם־</span> <span class="translit">(gam-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_1571.htm">Strong's 1571: </a> </span><span class="str2">Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and</span><br /><br /><span class="word">what use</span><br /><span class="heb">לָ֣מָּה</span> <span class="translit">(lām·māh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Interrogative<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_4100.htm">Strong's 4100: </a> </span><span class="str2">What?, what!, indefinitely what</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to me</span><br /><span class="heb">לִּ֑י</span> <span class="translit">(lî)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> </span><span class="str2"></span><br /><br /><span class="word">was the strength</span><br /><span class="heb">כֹּ֣חַ</span> <span class="translit">(kō·aḥ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3581.htm">Strong's 3581: </a> </span><span class="str2">A small reptile (of unknown species)</span><br /><br /><span class="word">of their hands,</span><br /><span class="heb">יְ֭דֵיהֶם</span> <span class="translit">(yə·ḏê·hem)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - fdc | third person masculine plural<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3027.htm">Strong's 3027: </a> </span><span class="str2">A hand</span><br /><br /><span class="word">since their vigor</span><br /><span class="heb">כָּֽלַח׃</span> <span class="translit">(kā·laḥ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3624.htm">Strong's 3624: </a> </span><span class="str2">Firm or rugged strength</span><br /><br /><span class="word">had left them?</span><br /><span class="heb">אָ֣בַד</span> <span class="translit">(’ā·ḇaḏ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6.htm">Strong's 6: </a> </span><span class="str2">To wander away, lose oneself, to perish</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/job/30-2.htm">Job 30:2 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/job/30-2.htm">Job 30:2 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/job/30-2.htm">Job 30:2 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/job/30-2.htm">Job 30:2 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/job/30-2.htm">Job 30:2 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/job/30-2.htm">Job 30:2 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/job/30-2.htm">Job 30:2 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/job/30-2.htm">Job 30:2 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/job/30-2.htm">Job 30:2 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/job/30-2.htm">Job 30:2 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/job/30-2.htm">OT Poetry: Job 30:2 Of what use is the strength (Jb) </a></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="/job/30-1.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 30:1"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 30:1" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="/job/30-3.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 30:3"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 30:3" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhnew2.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>