Job 30:1
“But now they mock me,
What it says
But now those younger than Job mock him, men whose fathers he would have disdained to place with the dogs of his flock.
What it is doing
This verse opens the chapter with the humiliation of social reversal.
In context
1“But now they mock me, 2What use to me was the strength of their hands, 3Gaunt from poverty and hunger, 4They plucked mallow among the shrubs, 5They were banished from among men, 6so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, 7They cried out among the shrubs 8A senseless and nameless brood, 9And now they mock me in song; 10They abhor me and keep far from me; 11Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, 12The rabble arises at my right; 13They tear up my path; 14They advance as through a wide breach;