Job Chapter 30 Back Next{30:1} "But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose
fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep
dogs.
{30:2} Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
{30:3} They are gaunt from lack and
famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
{30:4} They pluck salt
herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.
{30:5} They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;
{30:6} So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the
earth and of the rocks.
{30:7} Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they are gathered together.
{30:8} They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.
{30:9} "Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a
byword to them.
{30:10} They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don't hesitate to spit in my face.
{30:11} For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.
{30:12} On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
{30:13} They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help.
{30:14} As through a wide
breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.
{30:15} Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a
cloud.
{30:16} "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.
{30:17} In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
{30:18} By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the
collar of my
coat.
{30:19} He has cast me into the mire. I have become like
dust and ashes.
{30:20} I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.
{30:21} You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.
{30:22} You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.
{30:23} For I know that you will bring me to
death, To the house appointed for all living.
{30:24} "However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
{30:25} Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?
{30:26} When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came
darkness.
{30:27} My
heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me.
{30:28} I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
{30:29} I am a
brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
{30:30} My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
{30:31} Therefore my
harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
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