Job 30:1
And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.
Job 30:2
Also--the power of their hands, why is it to me? On them hath old age perished.
Job 30:3
With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,
Job 30:4
Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots is their food.
Job 30:5
From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),
Job 30:6
In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts.
Job 30:7
Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.
Job 30:8
Sons of folly--even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.
Job 30:9
And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.
Job 30:10
They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.
Job 30:11
Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.
Job 30:12
On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.
Job 30:13
They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, `He hath no helper.'
Job 30:14
As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.
Job 30:15
He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.
Job 30:16
And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction.
Job 30:17
At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.
Job 30:18
By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me.
Job 30:19
Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
Job 30:20
I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me.
Job 30:21
Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppressest me.
Job 30:22
Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest--Thou levellest me.
Job 30:23
For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And to the house appointed for all living.
Job 30:24
Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.
Job 30:25
Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.
Job 30:26
When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.
Job 30:27
My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.
Job 30:28
Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry.
Job 30:29
A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.
Job 30:30
My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,
Job 30:31
And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.