Job 30:1
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Job 30:2
Yea, whereto should the strength of their hands profit me, men in whom vigour hath perished?
Job 30:3
Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:
Job 30:4
They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
Job 30:5
They are driven forth from among men --they cry after them as after a thief--
Job 30:6
To dwell in gloomy gorges, in caves of the earth and the rocks:
Job 30:7
They bray among the bushes; under the brambles they are gathered together:
Job 30:8
Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.
Job 30:9
And now I am their song, yea, I am their byword.
Job 30:10
They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, yea, they spare not to spit in my face.
Job 30:11
For he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me; so they cast off the bridle before me.
Job 30:12
At my right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;
Job 30:13
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, without any to help them;
Job 30:14
They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.
Job 30:15
Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.
Job 30:16
And now my soul is poured out in me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Job 30:17
The night pierceth through my bones and detacheth them from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:
Job 30:18
By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.
Job 30:19
He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
Job 30:20
I cry unto thee, and thou answerest me not; I stand up, and thou lookest at me.
Job 30:21
Thou art changed to a cruel one to me; with the strength of thy hand thou pursuest me.
Job 30:22
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance.
Job 30:23
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.
Job 30:24
Indeed, no prayer availeth when he stretcheth out his hand: though they cry when he destroyeth.
Job 30:25
Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy?
Job 30:26
For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.
Job 30:27
My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me.
Job 30:28
I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation.
Job 30:29
I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches.
Job 30:30
My skin is become black and falleth off me, and my bones are parched with heat.
Job 30:31
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers.