Job 30

KING JAMES BIBLE	CATHOLIC PUBLIC DOMAIN
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, those younger in years scorn me, whose fathers I would not have seen fit to place with the dogs of my flock,
2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?	2 the strength of whose hands was nothing to me, and they were considered unworthy of life itself.
3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.	3 They were barren from poverty and hunger; they gnawed in solitude, layered with misfortune and misery.
4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.	4 And they chewed grass and the bark from trees, and the root of junipers was their food.
5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)	5 They took these things from the steep valleys, and when they discovered one of these things, they rushed to the others with a cry.
6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.	6 They lived in the parched desert and in caves underground or above the rocks.
7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.	7 They rejoiced among these kinds of things, and they considered it delightful to be under thorns.
8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.	8 These are the sons of foolish and base men, not even paying any attention to the land.
9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.	9 Now I become their song, and I have been made into their proverb.
10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.	10 They loathe me, and so they flee far from me, and they are not reluctant 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 For he has opened his quiver and has afflicted me, and he has placed a bridle in my mouth.
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 Immediately, upon rising, my calamities rise up to the right. They have overturned my feet and have pressed me down along their way like waves.
13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.	13 They have diverted my journeys; they have waited to ambush me, and they have prevailed, and there was no one who might bring help.
14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.	14 They have rushed upon me, as when a wall is broken or a gate opened, and they have been pulled down into my miseries.
15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.	15 I have been reduced to nothing. You have taken away my desire like a wind, and my health has passed by like a cloud.
16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.	16 But now my soul withers within myself, and the days of affliction take hold of me.
17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.	17 At night, my bone is pierced with sorrows, and those who feed on me, do not sleep.
18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.	18 By the sheer number of them my clothing is worn away, and they have closed in on me like the collar of my coat.
19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.	19 I have been treated like dirt, and I have been turned into embers 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 do not heed me. I stand up, and you do not look back at me.
21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.	21 You have changed me into hardness, and, with the hardness of your hand, you oppose me.
22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.	22 You have lifted me up, and, placing me as if on the wind, you have thrown me down powerfully.
23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.	23 I know that you will hand me over to death, where a home has been established for all the living.
24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.	24 Truly, then, you do not extend your hand in order to consume them, and if they fall down, you will save them.
25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?	25 Once, I wept over him who was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.
26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.	26 I expected good things, but evil things have come to me. I stood ready for light, yet darkness burst forth.
27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.	27 My insides have seethed, without any rest, for the days of affliction have prevented it.
28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.	28 I went forth mourning, without anger, and rising up, I cried out in confusion.
29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.	29 I was the brother of snakes, and the companion of ostriches.
30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.	30 My skin has become blackened over me, and my bones have dried up because of the heat.
31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.	31 My harp has been turned into mourning, and my pipes have been turned into a voice of weeping.