Job 19:18
Good News Translation
Children despise me and laugh when they see me.

New Revised Standard Version
Even young children despise me; when I rise, they talk against me.

Contemporary English Version
Young children can't stand me, and when I come near, they make fun.

New American Bible
Even young children despise me; when I appear, they speak against me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Even fools despised me, and when I was gone from them, they spoke against me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Even fools despised me, and when I was gone from them, they spoke against me.

Yea

Job 30:1,12 But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock: . . .

2 Kings 2:23 And he went up from thence to Bethel: and as he was going up by the way, little boys came out of the city and mocked him, saying: Go up, thou bald head, go up, thou bald head.

Isaiah 3:5 And the people shall rush one upon another, and every man against his neighbour: the child shall make a tumult against the ancient, and the base against the honourable.

young children.

Context
Job: My Redeemer Lives
17My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb. 18Even fools despised me, and when I was gone from them, they spoke against me.19They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I loved most is turned against me.…
Cross References
Job 19:17
My wife hath abhorred my breath, and I entreated the children of my womb.

Job 19:19
They that were sometime my counsellors, have abhorred me: and he whom I loved most is turned against me.

Psalm 50:20
Sitting thou didst speak against thy brother, and didst lay a scandal against thy mother's son:

Job 19:17
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