Job 30

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¹ "But now they make sport of me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to 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 What could I gain from the strength of their hands, men whose vigor is gone?	² And what use to me was the strength of their hands? - enfeebled as they were,
³ Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry and desolate ground;	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 they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes, and to warm themselves the roots of the broom.	⁴ they used to pick saltwort among the scrub, making their meals off roots of broom.
⁵ They are driven out from among men; they shout after them as after a thief.	⁵ Outlawed from human company, which raised hue and cry against them, as against thieves,
⁶ In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell, in holes of the earth and of 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 bray; under the nettles they huddle together.	⁷ You could hear them braying from the bushes as they huddled together in the thistles.
⁸ A senseless, a disreputable brood, they have been whipped out of the land.	⁸ Children of scoundrels, worse, nameless people, the very outcasts of society!
⁹ "And now I have become their song, I am a byword to them.	⁹ And these are the ones who now make up songs about me and use me as a byword!
¹⁰ They abhor me, they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.	¹⁰ Fil ed with disgust, they keep their distance, on seeing me, they spit without restraint.
¹¹ Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.	¹¹ And since God has loosened my bow-string and afflicted me, they too throw off the bridle in mypresence.
¹² On my right hand the rabble rise, they drive me forth, they cast up against me their ways of 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 break up my path, they promote my calamity; no one restrains them.	¹³ They cut off all means of escape seizing the chance to destroy me, and no one stops them.
¹⁴ As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on.	¹⁴ They move in, as if through a wide breach, and I go tumbling beneath the rubble.
¹⁵ Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like 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 within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.	¹⁶ And now the life in me trickles away, days of grief have gripped me.
¹⁷ The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.	¹⁷ At night-time sickness saps my bones I am gnawed by wounds that never sleep.
¹⁸ With violence it seizes my garment; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.	¹⁸ Violently, he has caught me by my clothes, has gripped me by the col ar of my coat.
¹⁹ God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.	¹⁹ He has thrown me into the mud; I am no more than dust and ashes.
²⁰ I cry to thee and thou dost not answer me; I stand, and thou dost not heed me.	²⁰ I cry to you, and you give me no answer; I stand before you, but you take no notice.
²¹ Thou hast turned cruel to me; with the might of thy hand thou dost persecute me.	²¹ You have grown cruel to me, and your strong hand torments me unmerciful y.
²² Thou liftest me up on the wind, thou makest me ride on it, and thou tossest me about in the roar of the storm.	²² You carry me away astride the wind and blow me to pieces in a tempest.
²³ Yea, 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 "Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help?	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 whose day was hard? 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 But when I looked for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came.	²⁶ I hoped for happiness, but sorrow came; I looked for light, but there was darkness.
²⁷ My heart is in turmoil, and is never still; days of affliction come to meet me.	²⁷ My stomach seethes, is never stil , days of suffering have struck me.
²⁸ I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.	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 of jackals, and a companion of ostriches.	²⁹ I have become brother to the jackal and companion to the ostrich.
³⁰ My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.	³⁰ My skin has turned black on me, my bones are burnt with fever.
³¹ My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.	³¹ My harp is tuned to dirges, my pipe to the voice of mourners.

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