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Scripture Context
Job 29:25 - Job 30:9
25 I chose out their way, and sat chief, and dwelt as a king in the army, as one that comforteth the mourners.
Job 30
Intro: Job's honor is turned into contempt, his prosperity into calamity.
1 But 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.
2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was 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 meat.
5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief,)
6 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men; they were viler than the earth.
9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.