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Job 30

Job 30

Job 30:1 ^
But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.
Job 30:1 ^
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Job 30:2 ^
Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.
Job 30:2 ^
Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
Job 30:3 ^
They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.
Job 30:3 ^
They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
Job 30:4 ^
They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.
Job 30:4 ^
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.
Job 30:5 ^
They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves
Job 30:5 ^
They are driven forth from the midst [of men]; They cry after them as after a thief;
Job 30:6 ^
They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.
Job 30:6 ^
So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.
Job 30:7 ^
They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.
Job 30:7 ^
Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together.
Job 30:8 ^
They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land.
Job 30:8 ^
[They are] children of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land.
Job 30:9 ^
And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.
Job 30:9 ^
And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them.
Job 30:10 ^
I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.
Job 30:10 ^
They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And spare not to spit in my face.
Job 30:11 ^
For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.
Job 30:11 ^
For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me; And they have cast off the bridle before me.
Job 30:12 ^
The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:
Job 30:12 ^
Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
Job 30:13 ^
They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;
Job 30:13 ^
They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even] men that have no helper.
Job 30:14 ^
As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.
Job 30:14 ^
As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me].
Job 30:15 ^
Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.
Job 30:15 ^
Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
Job 30:16 ^
But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:
Job 30:16 ^
And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Job 30:17 ^
The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.
Job 30:17 ^
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.
Job 30:18 ^
With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.
Job 30:18 ^
By [God's] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
Job 30:19 ^
Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.
Job 30:19 ^
He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
Job 30:20 ^
You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.
Job 30:20 ^
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not answer me: I stand up, and thou gazest at me.
Job 30:21 ^
You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.
Job 30:21 ^
Thou art turned to be cruel to me; With the might of thy hand thou persecutest me.
Job 30:22 ^
Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.
Job 30:22 ^
Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride [upon it]; And thou dissolvest me in the storm.
Job 30:23 ^
For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
Job 30:23 ^
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
Job 30:24 ^
Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?
Job 30:24 ^
Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
Job 30:25 ^
Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?
Job 30:25 ^
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
Job 30:26 ^
For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
Job 30:26 ^
When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Job 30:27 ^
My feelings are strongly moved, and give me no rest; days of trouble have overtaken me.
Job 30:27 ^
My heart is troubled, and resteth not; Days of affliction are come upon me.
Job 30:28 ^
I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.
Job 30:28 ^
I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
Job 30:29 ^
I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.
Job 30:29 ^
I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.
Job 30:30 ^
My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.
Job 30:30 ^
My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are burned with heat.
Job 30:31 ^
And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.
Job 30:31 ^
Therefore is my harp [turned] to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
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