Job 30:1
But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Job 30:2
Yea, the strength of their hands, to what should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
Job 30:3
They are gaunt with want and famine. They gnaw the dry ground in the gloom of waste and desolation.
Job 30:4
They pluck mallows by the bushes, and the roots of the juniper are their food.
Job 30:5
They are driven forth from the midst of men. They cry out after them as after a thief,
Job 30:6
so that they dwell in frightful valleys, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
Job 30:7
Among the bushes they bray, under the nettles they are gathered together.
Job 30:8
They are sons of fools, yea, sons of base men. They were scourged out of the land.
Job 30:9
And now I have become their song, Yea, I am a byword to them.
Job 30:10
They abhor me. They stand aloof from me, and do not spare to spit in my face.
Job 30:11
For he has loosed his cord, and afflicted me. And they have cast off the bridle before me.
Job 30:12
Upon my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
Job 30:13
They mar my path. They set forward my calamity, even men who have no helper.
Job 30:14
As through a wide breach they come. In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me.
Job 30:15
Terrors are turned upon me. They chase my honor as the wind, and my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
Job 30:16
And now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Job 30:17
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
Job 30:18
By the great force my garment is disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
Job 30:19
He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
Job 30:20
I cry to thee, and thou do not answer me. I stand up, and thou gaze at me.
Job 30:21
Thou have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of thy hand thou persecute me.
Job 30:22
Thou lift me up to the wind. Thou cause me to ride upon it, and thou disintegrate me in the storm.
Job 30:23
For I know that thou will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Job 30:24
However does not a man stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
Job 30:25
Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came. And when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Job 30:27
My heart is troubled, and does not rest. Days of affliction have come upon me.
Job 30:28
I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
Job 30:29
I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
Job 30:30
My skin is black, and falls from me. And my bones are burned with heat.
Job 30:31
Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.