Job 30
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- 1But now men younger than me hold me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
- 2What benefit was the strength of their hands to me, since their old age had wasted away?
- 3From want and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wilderness, formerly desolate and waste.
- 4They cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.
- 5They were driven out from among men; people cried after them as after a thief.
- 6To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
- 7They howled among the bushes; under the thornbushes they were gathered together.
- 8They were children of fools, yes, children of base men; they were viler than the earth.
- 9And now I am their song; yes, I am their byword.
- 10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and do not spare to spit in my face.
- 11Because he has loosened my cord and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
- 12The youth rise up on my right side; they push my feet away and raise up paths of their destruction against me.
- 13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity; they have no helper.
- 14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters; in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
- 15Terrors are turned upon me; they pursue my soul as the wind, and my welfare passes away as a cloud.
- 16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold of me.
- 17My bones are pierced in me in the night, and my sinews take no rest.
- 18By the great force of my disease my garment is changed; it binds me about as the collar of my coat.
- 19He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
- 20I cry to you, and you do not hear me; I stand up, and you do not regard me.
- 21You have become cruel to me; with your strong hand you oppose yourself against me.
- 22You lift me up to the wind; you cause me to ride upon it, and dissolve my substance.
- 23For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
- 24However, he will not extend his hand to the grave, even if they cry out in their destruction.
- 25Did I not weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
- 26When I looked for good, then evil came to me; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
- 27My insides were in turmoil and did not rest; the days of affliction confronted me.
- 28I went mourning without the sun; I stood up and I cried in the congregation.
- 29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
- 30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
- 31My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ to the voice of those who weep.