Job 30:8

In 11 translations

BSB

A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.

KJV

They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.base…: Heb. men of no name

WEB

They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land.

ASV

They are children of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land.

LSV

Sons of folly—even sons without name, || They have been struck from the land.

YLT

Sons of folly — even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.

DBY

Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.

DRC

The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.

GNV

They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth.

JPS

They are children of churls, yea, children of ignoble men; they were scourged out of the land.

LXXE

They are sons of fools and vile men, whose name and glory are quenched from off the earth.

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WLC

בְּֽנֵי־נָ֭בָל גַּם־בְּנֵ֣י בְלִי־שֵׁ֑ם נִ֝כְּא֗וּ מִן־הָאָֽרֶץ׃

LXX-Br

Ἀφρόνων υἱοὶ καὶ ἀτίμων, ὄνομα καὶ κλέος ἐσβεσμένον ἀπὸ γῆς.

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• Proverbs 16:22Understanding is a fountain of life to its possessor, but the discipline of fools is folly.
• Jeremiah 7:18The sons gather wood, the fathers light the fire, and the women knead the dough to make cakes for the Queen of Heaven; they pour out drink offerings to other gods to provoke Me to anger.
• Proverbs 1:7The fear of the LORD is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and discipline.
• Isaiah 32:6For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.
• Proverbs 1:22“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
• Job 40:4“Behold, I am insignificant. How can I reply to You? I place my hand over my mouth.
• Mark 6:24Then she went out and asked her mother, “What should I request?” And her mother answered, “The head of John the Baptist.”
• 2 Kings 8:18And Jehoram walked in the ways of the kings of Israel, just as the house of Ahab had done. For he married a daughter of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD.
• 2 Kings 8:27And Ahaziah walked in the ways of the house of Ahab and did evil in the sight of the LORD like the house of Ahab, for he was a son-in-law of the house of Ahab.
• 2 Chronicles 22:3Ahaziah also walked in the ways of the house of Ahab, for his mother was his counselor in wickedness.
• Psalms 15:4who despises the vile but honors those who fear the LORD, who does not revise a costly oath,
• Psalms 49:10–13For it is clear that wise men die, and the foolish and the senseless both perish and leave their wealth to others. Their graves are their eternal homes— their dwellings for endless generations— even though their lands…

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