The Meaning of Job 30:8 Explained

Job 30:8

KJV: They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

YLT: Sons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.

Darby: Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.

ASV: They are children of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land.

KJV Reverse Interlinear

[They were] children  of fools,  yea, children  of base men:  they were viler  than the earth. 

What does Job 30:8 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Job 30

1  Job's honor is turned into extreme contempt
15  and his prosperity into calamity

What do the individual words in Job 30:8 mean?

[They were] sons of fools Yes sons of vile men they were scourged from the land
בְּֽנֵי־ נָ֭בָל גַּם־ בְּנֵ֣י בְלִי־ שֵׁ֑ם נִ֝כְּא֗וּ מִן־ הָאָֽרֶץ

בְּֽנֵי־  [They  were]  sons 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: בֵּן 
Sense: son, grandson, child, member of a group.
נָ֭בָל  of  fools 
Parse: Adjective, masculine singular
Root: נָבָל  
Sense: foolish, senseless, fool.
גַּם־  Yes 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: גַּם  
Sense: also, even, indeed, moreover, yea.
בְּנֵ֣י  sons 
Parse: Noun, masculine plural construct
Root: בֵּן 
Sense: son, grandson, child, member of a group.
שֵׁ֑ם  vile  men 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: שֵׁם  
Sense: name.
נִ֝כְּא֗וּ  they  were  scourged 
Parse: Verb, Nifal, Perfect, third person common plural
Root: נָכָא  
Sense: (Niph) to strike, scourge, smite.
הָאָֽרֶץ  the  land 
Parse: Article, Noun, feminine singular
Root: אֶרֶץ  
Sense: land, earth.