Job 30:1WEB
“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.
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Job 30:1WEB
“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.
Job 30:2WEB
Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
Job 30:3WEB
They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
Job 30:4WEB
They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.
Job 30:5WEB
They are driven out from among men. They cry after them as after a thief,
Job 30:6WEB
so that they live in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
Job 30:7WEB
They bray among the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles.
Job 30:8WEB
They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land.
Job 30:9WEB
“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
Job 30:10WEB
They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.
Job 30:11WEB
For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.
Job 30:12WEB
On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet. They cast their ways of destruction up against me.
Job 30:13WEB
They mar my path. They promote my destruction without anyone’s help.
Job 30:14WEB
As through a wide breach they come. They roll themselves in amid the ruin.
Job 30:15WEB
Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
Job 30:16WEB
“Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of me.
Job 30:17WEB
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
Job 30:18WEB
My garment is disfigured by great force. It binds me about as the collar of my tunic.
Job 30:19WEB
He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
Job 30:20WEB
I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.
Job 30:21WEB
You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.
Job 30:22WEB
You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.
Job 30:23WEB
For I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.
Job 30:24WEB
“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
Job 30:25WEB
Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
Job 30:26WEB
When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.
Job 30:27WEB
My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. Days of affliction have come on me.
Job 30:28WEB
I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
Job 30:29WEB
I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
Job 30:30WEB
My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
Job 30:31WEB
Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
Scripture quotations are from the World English Bible, which is in the public domain.