Parallel Verses
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
They were children of fools and villains, which are dead away from the world.
New American Standard Bible
They were scourged from the land.
King James Version
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
Holman Bible
They were forced to leave the land.
International Standard Version
Sons of fools and of uncertain reputation, they have been driven from the land by scourging."
A Conservative Version
[They are] sons of fools, yea, sons of base men. They were scourged out of the land.
American Standard Version
They are children of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land.
Amplified
“They are the sons of [worthless and nameless] fools,
They have been driven out of the land.
Bible in Basic English
They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land.
Darby Translation
Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.
Julia Smith Translation
The sons of the foolish one, also the sons of no name: they were beaten from the land.
King James 2000
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
Lexham Expanded Bible
{A senseless crowd}, yes, {a disreputable brood}, they were cast out from the land.
Modern King James verseion
sons of fools, yea, sons without a name; they have been whipped out of the land.
NET Bible
Sons of senseless and nameless people, they were driven out of the land with whips.
New Heart English Bible
They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.
The Emphasized Bible
Sons of the base, yea sons of the nameless, they were scourged out of the land.
Webster
They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
World English Bible
They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.
Youngs Literal Translation
Sons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.
Interlinear
Shem
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 30:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Final Defense Continued
7 Upon the dry heath went they about crying, and under the thorns they gathered themselves together. 8 They were children of fools and villains, which are dead away from the world. 9 Now am I their song, and am become their jesting stock;
Phrases
Cross References
2 Kings 8:18
And he walked in the way of the kings of Israel, as did the house of Ahab for the daughter of Ahab was his wife, and he did that displeased the LORD.
2 Kings 8:27
And he walked in the way of the house of Ahab, and did that which was evil in the sight of the LORD: for he was a son-in-law to the house of Ahab.
2 Chronicles 22:3
And he walked also in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor for to do evil.
Job 40:4
"Behold, I am too vile a person to answer thee, therefore will I lay my hand upon my mouth.
Psalm 15:4
He that sitteth not by himself, but is lowly in his own eyes, and maketh much of them that fear the LORD. He that sweareth unto his neighbour, and disappointeth him not, though it were to his own hindrance.
Psalm 49:10-13
For he seeth that wise men also die and perish together, as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for others.
Proverbs 1:7
The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom. But fools despise wisdom and instruction.
Proverbs 1:22
"O ye children, how long will ye love childishness? How long will the scorners delight in scorning, and the unwise be enemies unto knowledge?
Proverbs 16:22
Understanding is a well of life unto him that hath it; as for the chastening of fools, it is but foolishness.
Isaiah 32:6
But the churl will be churlishly minded, and his heart will work evil and play the hypocrite, and imagine abominations against God, to make the hungry lean, and withhold drink from the thirsty.
Jeremiah 7:18
The children gather sticks, the fathers kindle the fire, the mothers knead the dough, to make cakes for the queen of heaven. They pour out drink offerings unto strange gods, to provoke me unto wrath.
Mark 6:24
And she went forth and said to her mother, "What shall I ask?" And she said, "John Baptist's head."