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Sighing over his miserable present
30:1-31
Job 30
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30:1
But now those who are younger than I
Hold me in derision,
Those whose fathers I disdained
To put with the dogs of my flock.
Job 30
:2
30:2
Indeed, what
good is the strength of their hands to me?
Their vigor has perished from them.
Job 30
:3
30:3
Withered up through want and hunger,
They gnaw at the dry ground,
A gloom of waste and desolation.
Job 30
:4
30:4
They pick the mallow upon the bushes,
And the roots of the broom shrub are their food.
Job 30
:5
30:5
They are driven from the company
of men;
Men cry after them as after a thief;
Job 30
:6
30:6
So that they must dwell in the most dreadful ravines,
In caves of the earth and in the rocks.
Job 30
:7
30:7
Among the bushes they bray;
Under the nettles they huddle.
Job 30
:8
30:8
Sons of fools, indeed sons of nameless men,
They have been stricken from the land.
Job 30
:9
30:9
And now I have become their song,
And I am a
abyword to them.
Job 30
:10
30:10
They abhor me; they stand aloof from me;
And they do not withhold
their spit from my face.
Job 30
:11
30:11
For He has loosened
1my cord and afflicted me;
Therefore they have cast off restraint in my presence.
Job 30
:12
30:12
At my right hand a brood rises up;
They send my feet
running And cast up against me their ways of destruction.
Job 30
:13
30:13
They break up my path;
They promote my calamity,
Though there is no profit to them.
Job 30
:14
30:14
As through a wide breach they come in;
Amid the ruin they roll on.
Job 30
:15
30:15
Terrors are turned upon me;
My honor is pursued as by a wind,
And my prosperity passes away like a
acloud.
Job 30
:16
30:16
And now my
asoul is poured out within me;
Days of affliction have taken hold of me.
Job 30
:17
30:17
The night rends my bones from me,
And my gnawing pains do not rest.
Job 30
:18
30:18
With great force my garments are distorted;
It binds me like the collar of my coat.
Job 30
:19
30:19
He has cast me into the mire,
And I am like
adust and ashes.
Job 30
:20
30:20
I cry unto You, but You do not answer me;
I stand up, and You stare at me.
Job 30
:21
30:21
You have turned to become cruel to me;
With the might of Your hand You pursue me.
Job 30
:22
30:22
You lift me up into the wind; You make me ride on it;
And You dissolve me in the storm.
Job 30
:23
30:23
For I know that You will bring me into death,
And to the
ahouse appointed for all living.
Job 30
:24
30:24
Nevertheless does not a man put forth
his hand when he falls,
Or because of his disaster therefore cry out?
Job 30
:25
30:25
Did I not weep for him who had hard days?
Was my soul not grieved for the needy?
Job 30
:26
30:26
When I expected good, evil came;
And when I waited for light, darkness came.
Job 30
:27
30:27
My inward parts are in turmoil and are not still;
Days of affliction have drawn near to me.
Job 30
:28
30:28
I go about in sunless mourning.
I rise up in the congregation; I cry for help.
Job 30
:29
30:29
I am a brother to jackals
And a companion to ostriches.
Job 30
:30
30:30
My skin is black
and falling from me,
And my bones burn with heat.
Job 30
:31
30:31
My lyre has become mourning,
And my pipe, the voice of those who weep.
