Job 30

KING JAMES BIBLE	NEW JERUSALEM
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 And now I am the laughing-stock of people who are younger than I am and whose parents I wouldhave disdained to put with the dogs guarding my flock.
2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?	2 And what use to me was the strength of their hands? - enfeebled as they were,
3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.	3 worn out by want and hunger, for they used to gnaw the roots of the thirsty ground -- that place ofgloom, ruin and desolation-
4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.	4 they used to pick saltwort among the scrub, making their meals off roots of broom.
5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)	5 Outlawed from human company, which raised hue and cry against them, as against thieves,
6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.	6 they made their homes in the sides of ravines, in holes in the earth or in clefts of rock.
7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.	7 You could hear them braying from the bushes as they huddled together in the thistles.
8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.	8 Children of scoundrels, worse, nameless people, the very outcasts of society!
9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.	9 And these are the ones who now make up songs about me and use me as a byword!
10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.	10 Fil ed with disgust, they keep their distance, on seeing me, they spit without restraint.
11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.	11 And since God has loosened my bow-string and afflicted me, they too throw off the bridle in mypresence.
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 Their brats surge forward on my right, to see when I am having a little peace, and advance on mewith threatening strides.
13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.	13 They cut off all means of escape seizing the chance to destroy me, and no one stops them.
14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.	14 They move in, as if through a wide breach, and I go tumbling beneath the rubble.
15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.	15 Terror rounds on me, my confidence is dispersed as though by the wind, my hope of safety vanisheslike a cloud.
16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.	16 And now the life in me trickles away, days of grief have gripped me.
17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.	17 At night-time sickness saps my bones I am gnawed by wounds that never sleep.
18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.	18 Violently, he has caught me by my clothes, has gripped me by the col ar of my coat.
19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.	19 He has thrown me into the mud; I am no more than 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, and you give me no answer; I stand before you, but you take no notice.
21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.	21 You have grown cruel to me, and your strong hand torments me unmerciful y.
22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.	22 You carry me away astride the wind and blow me to pieces in a tempest.
23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.	23 Yes, I know that you are taking me towards death, to the common meeting-place of al the living.
24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.	24 Yet have I ever laid a hand on the poor when they cried out for justice in calamity?
25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?	25 Have I not wept for those whose life is hard, felt pity for the penniless?
26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.	26 I hoped for happiness, but sorrow came; I looked for light, but there was darkness.
27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.	27 My stomach seethes, is never stil , days of suffering have struck me.
28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.	28 Sombre I go, yet no one comforts me, and if I rise in the council, I rise to weep.
29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.	29 I have become brother to the jackal and companion to the ostrich.
30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.	30 My skin has turned black on me, my bones are burnt with fever.
31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.	31 My harp is tuned to dirges, my pipe to the voice of mourners.