Job 30
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Job 30
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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.
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2. Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was
perished?
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3. For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time
desolate and waste.
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4. Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
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5. They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
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6. To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
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7. Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
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8. They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the
earth.
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9. And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
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10. They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
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<b>11. Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the
bridle before me.</b>
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12. Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against
me the ways of their destruction.
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13. They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
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14. They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled
themselves upon me.
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15. Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth
away as a cloud.
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16. And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
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17. My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
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18. By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the
collar of my coat.
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19. He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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20. I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
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21. Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
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22. Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my
substance.
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23. For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all
living.
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24. Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his
destruction.
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25. Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
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26. When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there
came darkness.
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27. My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
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28. I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
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29. I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
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30. My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
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31. My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
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