Job 30:8

They were children of fools,.... Their parents were fools, or they themselves were such; foolish children, or foolish men, were they that derided Job; and their derision of him was a proof of it: the…

They were children of fools - The word rendered “fools” נבל nâbâl, means, (1) stupid, foolish; and (2) abandoned, impious; compare 1Sa 25:3, 1Sa 25:25. Here it means the worthless, the refuse of…

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…

The verse reads in close connexion with Job 30:30,

Children of fools, yea children of base men,

They are scourged out of the land.

Children of "base men," lit. of no name, i. e. base born, they are…