Job 30:1
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.
Job 30:2
Yes, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
Job 30:3
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Job 30:4
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
Job 30:5
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
Job 30:6
To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
Job 30:7
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
Job 30:8
They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
Job 30:9
And now am I their song, yes, I am their byword.
Job 30:10
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
Job 30:11
Because he has loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
Job 30:12
On my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Job 30:13
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
Job 30:14
They came on me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves on me.
Job 30:15
Terrors are turned on me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud.
Job 30:16
And now my soul is poured out on me; the days of affliction have taken hold on me.
Job 30:17
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
Job 30:18
By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it binds me about as the collar of my coat.
Job 30:19
He has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Job 30:20
I cry to you, and you do not hear me: I stand up, and you regard me not.
Job 30:21
You are become cruel to me: with your strong hand you oppose yourself against me.
Job 30:22
You lift me up to the wind; you cause me to ride on it, and dissolve my substance.
Job 30:23
For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Job 30:24
However, he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
Job 30:25
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came to me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Job 30:27
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
Job 30:28
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
Job 30:29
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
Job 30:30
My skin is black on me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Job 30:31
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.