Job 30
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| 1 | But nowe they that are yonger then I, haue mee in derision, whose fathers I would haue disdained to haue set with the dogs of my flocke. |
| 2 | Yea whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom olde age was perished? |
| 3 | For want and famine they were solitarie: flying into the wildernesse in former time desolate and waste: |
| 4 | Who cut vp mallowes by the bushes, and Iuniper rootes for their meate. |
| 5 | They were driuen foorth from among men, (they cried after them, as after a thiefe.) |
| 6 | To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caues of the earth, and in the rockes. |
| 7 | Among the bushes they brayed: vnder the nettles they were gathered together. |
| 8 | They were children of fooles, yea children of base men: they were viler then the earth. |
| 9 | And now am I their song, yea I am their by-word. |
| 10 | They abhorre me, they flee farre from me, and spare not to spit in my face. |
| 11 | Because hee hath loosed my cord and afflicted me, they haue also let loose the bridle before me. |
| 12 | Upon my right hand rise the youth, they push away my feete, and they raise vp against mee the wayes of their destruction. |
| 13 | They marre my path, they set forward my calamitie, they haue no helper. |
| 14 | They came vpon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselues vpon me. |
| 15 | Terrours are turned vpon mee: they pursue my soule as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloude. |
| 16 | And now my soule is powred out vpon me: the dayes of affliction haue taken hold vpon me. |
| 17 | My bones are pierced in mee in the night season: and my sinewes take no rest. |
| 18 | By the great force of my disease, is my garment changed: it bindeth mee about as the collar of my coat. |
| 19 | He hath cast mee into the myre, and I am become like dust and ashes. |
| 20 | I crie vnto thee, and thou doest not heare me: I stand vp, and thou regardest me not. |
| 21 | Thou art become cruell to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thy selfe against me. |
| 22 | Thou liftest me vp to the wind: thou causest me to ride vpon it, and dissoluest my substance. |
| 23 | For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all liuing. |
| 24 | Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the graue, though they cry in his destruction. |
| 25 | Did not I weepe for him that was in trouble? was not my soule grieued for the poore? |
| 26 | When I looked for good, then euill came vnto mee: and when I waited for light, there came darkenes. |
| 27 | My bowels boyled and rested not: the dayes of affliction preuented mee. |
| 28 | I went mourning without the Sunne: I stood vp, and I cried in the Congregation. |
| 29 | I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owles. |
| 30 | My skinne is blacke vpon mee, and my bones are burnt with heat. |
| 31 | My harpe also is turned to mourning, and my organe into the voyce of them that weepe. |