Job 30
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| 1 | But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. |
| 2 | Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished. |
| 3 | They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation. |
| 4 | They pluck salt-wort with wormwood; And the roots of the broom are their food. |
| 5 | They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief. |
| 6 | In the clefts of the valleys must they dwell, In holes of the earth and of the rocks. |
| 7 | Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together. |
| 8 | They are children of churls, yea, children of ignoble men; They were scourged out of the land. |
| 9 | And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them. |
| 10 | They abhor me, they flee far from me, And spare not to spit in my face. |
| 11 | For He hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, And they have cast off the bridle before me. |
| 12 | Upon my right hand rise the brood; They entangle my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction. |
| 13 | They break up my path, They further my calamity, Even men that have no helper. |
| 14 | As through a wide breach they come; In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me. |
| 15 | Terrors are turned upon me, They chase mine honour as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud. |
| 16 | And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me. |
| 17 | In the night my bones are pierced, and fall from me, And my sinews take no rest. |
| 18 | By the great force [of my disease] is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. |
| 19 | He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes. |
| 20 | I cry unto Thee, and Thou dost not answer me; I stand up, and Thou lookest at me. . |
| 21 | Thou art turned to be cruel to me; With the might of Thy hand Thou hatest me. |
| 22 | Thou liftest me up to the wind, Thou causest me to ride upon it; And Thou dissolvest my substance. |
| 23 | For I know that Thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living. |
| 24 | Surely none shall put forth his hand to a ruinous heap, Neither because of these things shall help come in one’s calamity, |
| 25 | If I have not wept for him that was in trouble, And if my soul grieved not for the needy. |
| 26 | Yet, when I looked for good, there came evil; And when I waited for light, there came darkness. |
| 27 | Mine inwards boil, and rest not; Days of affliction are come upon me. |
| 28 | I go mourning without the sun; I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help. |
| 29 | I am become a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches. |
| 30 | My skin is black, and falleth from me, And my bones are burned with heat. |
| 31 | Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep. |