Job 30:2

In 11 translations

BSB

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

KJV

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

WEB

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

ASV

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

LSV

Also—the power of their hands, why [is it] to me? On them old age has perished.

YLT

Also — the power of their hands, why [is it] to me? On them hath old age perished.

DBY

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

DRC

The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.

GNV

For whereto shoulde the strength of their handes haue serued mee, seeing age perished in them?

JPS

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

LXXE

Yea, why had I the strength of their hands? for them the full term of life was lost.

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WLC

גַּם־כֹּ֣חַ יְ֭דֵיהֶם לָ֣מָּה לִּ֑י עָ֝לֵ֗ימוֹ אָ֣בַד כָּֽלַח׃

LXX-Br

Καί γε ἰσχὺς χειρῶν αὐτῶν ἱνατί μοι; ἐπʼ αὐτοὺς ἀπώλετο συντέλεια.

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