Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
Also--the power of their hands, why is it to me? On them hath old age perished.
Yea, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished?
Job — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
J O B CHAP. XXX. It is a melancholy "But now" which this chapter begins with. Adversity is here described as much to the life as prosperity was in the foregoing chapter, and the height of that did but increase the depth of this. God sets the one over-against the…