Job 30:1 says, 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.  Job shifts from speaking of how his life had been viewed in its greatest success to how it was now.  People tend to equate material success with living a successful life.  If someone who had been the authority in life because of their success suddenly falls into need, people today often look down on them thinking that they surely got what they deserve.  Often, it is those who are poor themselves that exhibit this attitude the strongest.  Verse two says, Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?  Job said that those around him, instead of looking down on him, should have helped him in his time of need.  They should have given him respect because they knew who he was.  We should always be ready to help those in need, especially those that we know have lived their lives for the glory of God.  Verse three states, For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.  Job said that those condemning him for his poverty and suffering were really not much better off than he was.  They were scouring the desert for food.  Verse four says, Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.  These are likely people that Job would have helped when he was at his greatest materially, but even as they themselves had so little materially, they still looked down on Job.  If God did indeed punish the wicked by having them suffer materially as many around Job believed, then they would have had to classify themselves as wicked.  We must not exhibit the same attitude today.  We should be willing to help anyone, even those who had at one time been far superior to us materially.  Verse five says, They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)  Then verse six continues, To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.  Job said that though those who were treating him with abuse didn't even really have a home of their own and had to hide out from the upright people of the world, they still felt superior to Job.  There is still a tendency today, if a rich person loses everything, for those who had been so much worse off to look down on them.  Whether people are rich or poor, we should never judge them by their material success.  Verse seven says, Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.  Job said those who had once looked to him with either respect or envy now gathered around him to shout at him in contempt.  Verse eight states, They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.  I do not believe that people are judged by who their parents are, but often those born to wicked parents do have a harder time in finding the way that God would have them live.  Verse nine states,  And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.  Job said that people were even making up songs about him and using him as an example of God's judgment of the wicked.  Verse ten continues, They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.  It really is the nature of group, or mob, of people to grow more and more aggressive in their treatment of people that they feel superior to.  They not only looked down on Job, but they went so far as to spit on him.  In the next four verses, Job continues to speak of how he was treated.  I think we may sometimes think that Job was pretty much ignored by the world, except his three friends who were berating him, but he was far from ignored.  Job was continually abused by the poor and wicked people around him.  Verse eleven says, Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.  Then verse twelve, Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.  Continuing in verse thirteen, They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.  Then finally verse fourteen states, They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.  Job was not just suffering because of his physical ailments and anguish over feeling deserted by God, nearly all those around him seemed to be going out of their way to add to his suffering.  If we today see someone in great distress, especially if it is someone who is known to be a follower of God, if we cannot offer them help, then we certainly should not add to their misery.