Job 30

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¹ But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.	¹ But now they hold me in derision who are younger in years than I; Whose fathers I should have disdained to rank with the dogs of my flock.
² Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?	² Such strength as they had, to me meant nought; they were utterly destitute.
³ For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.	³ In want and hunger was their lot, they who fled to the parched wastelands:
⁴ Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.	⁴ They plucked saltwort and shrubs; the roots of the broom plant were their food.
⁵ They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)	⁵ They were banished from among men, with an outcry like that against a thief--
⁶ To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.	⁶ To dwell on the slopes of the wadies, in caves of sand and stone;
⁷ Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.	⁷ Among the bushes they raised their raucous cry; under the nettles they huddled together.
⁸ They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.	⁸ Irresponsible, nameless men, they were driven out of the land.
⁹ And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.	⁹ Yet now they sing of me in mockery; I am become a byword among them.
¹⁰ They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.	¹⁰ They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, they do not hesitate to spit in my face!
¹¹ Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.	¹¹ Indeed, they have loosed their bonds; they lord it over me, and have thrown off restraint in my presence.
¹² Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.	¹² To subvert my paths they rise up; they build their approaches for my ruin.
¹³ They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.	¹³ To destroy me, they attack with none to stay them;
¹⁴ They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.	¹⁴ as through a wide breach they advance. Amid the uproar they come on in waves;
¹⁵ Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.	¹⁵ over me rolls the terror. My dignity is borne off on the wind, and my welfare vanishes like a cloud.
¹⁶ And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.	¹⁶ My soul ebbs away from me;
¹⁷ My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.	¹⁷ My frame takes no rest by night; my inward parts seethe and will not be stilled.
¹⁸ By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.	¹⁸ One with great power lays hold of my clothing; by the collar of my tunic he seizes me:
¹⁹ He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.	¹⁹ He has cast me into the mire; I am leveled with the dust and ashes.
²⁰ I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.	²⁰ I cry to you, but you do not answer me; you stand off and look at me,
²¹ Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.	²¹ Then you turn upon me without mercy and with your strong hand you buffet me.
²² Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.	²² You raise me up and drive me before the wind; I am tossed about by the tempest.
²³ For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.	²³ Indeed I know you will turn me back in death to the destined place of everyone alive.
²⁴ Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.	²⁴ Yet should not a hand be held out to help a wretched man in his calamity?
²⁵ Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?	²⁵ Or have I not wept for the hardships of others; was not my soul grieved for the destitute?
²⁶ When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.	²⁶ Yet when I looked for good, then evil came; when I expected light, then came darkness.
²⁷ My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.	²⁷ days of affliction have overtaken me.
²⁸ I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.	²⁸ I go about in gloom, without the sun; I rise up in public to voice my grief.
²⁹ I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.	²⁹ I have become the brother of jackals, companion to the ostrich.
³⁰ My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.	³⁰ My blackened skin falls away from me; the heat scorches my very frame.
³¹ My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.	³¹ My harp is turned to mourning, and my reed pipe to sounds of weeping.

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