“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.
Here Job makes a very large and sad complaint of the great disgrace he had fallen into, from the height of honour and reputation, which was exceedingly grievous and cutting to such an ingenuous spirit as Job's was. Two things he insists upon as greatly aggravating his affliction: - I. The meanness of the persons that affronted him.
Commenting on Job 30:1-14
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision,.... Meaning not his three friends, who were men in years, and were not, at least all of them, younger than he, see Job 15:10; nor were they of such a mean extraction, and such low-lived creatures, and of such characters as here described; with such Job would never have held a correspondence in...
But now [they that are] younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. (a) That is, my estate is changed and while before the ancient men were glad to revere me, the young men now contemn me. (b) Meaning to be my shepherds or to keep my dogs.