But now they that are younger than I hold me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
All Commentaries on Job 30:1 Go To Job 30
George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Flock, to watch over them. (Sanchez) (Calmet)
I had so little confidence in them, (Haydock) or they were so very mean. (Calmet)
They were not as well fed as my dogs. (Nicetas.)
Job does not speak this out of contempt, as he was affable to all. But this proverbial expression denotes how vile these people were. (Menochius)
Even the most contemptible, and such as were not fit to have the care of dogs, derided him. (Worthington)