Job 30

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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,	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.
² the strength of whose hands was nothing to me, and they were considered unworthy of life itself.	² Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
³ They were barren from poverty and hunger; they gnawed in solitude, layered with misfortune and misery.	³ For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
⁴ And they chewed grass and the bark from trees, and the root of junipers was their food.	⁴ Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
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.	⁵ They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
⁶ They lived in the parched desert and in caves underground or above the rocks.	⁶ To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
⁷ They rejoiced among these kinds of things, and they considered it delightful to be under thorns.	⁷ Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
⁸ These are the sons of foolish and base men, not even paying any attention to the land.	⁸ They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
⁹ Now I become their song, and I have been made into their proverb.	⁹ And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
¹⁰ They loathe me, and so they flee far from me, and they are not reluctant to spit in my face.	¹⁰ They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
¹¹ For he has opened his quiver and has afflicted me, and he has placed a bridle in my mouth.	¹¹ Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
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.	¹² Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
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.	¹³ They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
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.	¹⁴ They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
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.	¹⁵ Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
¹⁶ But now my soul withers within myself, and the days of affliction take hold of me.	¹⁶ And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
¹⁷ At night, my bone is pierced with sorrows, and those who feed on me, do not sleep.	¹⁷ My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
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.	¹⁸ By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
¹⁹ I have been treated like dirt, and I have been turned into embers and ashes.	¹⁹ He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
²⁰ I cry to you, and you do not heed me. I stand up, and you do not look back at me.	²⁰ I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
²¹ You have changed me into hardness, and, with the hardness of your hand, you oppose me.	²¹ Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
²² You have lifted me up, and, placing me as if on the wind, you have thrown me down powerfully.	²² Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
²³ I know that you will hand me over to death, where a home has been established for all the living.	²³ For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
²⁴ Truly, then, you do not extend your hand in order to consume them, and if they fall down, you will save them.	²⁴ Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
²⁵ Once, I wept over him who was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.	²⁵ Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
²⁶ I expected good things, but evil things have come to me. I stood ready for light, yet darkness burst forth.	²⁶ When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
²⁷ My insides have seethed, without any rest, for the days of affliction have prevented it.	²⁷ My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
²⁸ I went forth mourning, without anger, and rising up, I cried out in confusion.	²⁸ I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
²⁹ I was the brother of snakes, and the companion of ostriches.	²⁹ I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
³⁰ My skin has become blackened over me, and my bones have dried up because of the heat.	³⁰ My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
³¹ My harp has been turned into mourning, and my pipes have been turned into a voice of weeping.	³¹ My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

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