Job 30
1 But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.
And now - they have laughed on me [people] young more than me to days whom I rejected fathers their to put with [the] dogs of flock my.
2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.
Also [the] strength of hands their why? to me on them it had perished vigor.
3 They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.
In poverty and in hunger barren the [ones who] gnaw a dry region yesterday of ruin and desolation.
4 They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots.
Those [who] pluck off mallow on bush[es] and [the] root of broom plants [for] food their.
5 They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves
From [the] community they are driven away people shout on them like thief.
6 They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks.
On [the] slope of wadis to dwell holes of [the] ground and rocks.
7 They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.
Between bushes they bray under nettle[s] they are joined together.
8 They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land.
Sons of a fool also sons of not a name they have been scourged from the land.
9 And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them.
And now taunt song their I have become and I have become for them a word.
10 I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me.
They abhor me they are distant from me and from face my not they have withheld spittle.
11 For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me.
For (string my *Q(K)*) he has loosened and he has afflicted me and [the] halter from before me they have sent away.
12 The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:
On [the] right [side] a brood they arise feet my they have sent away and they have piled up on me [the] paths of disaster their.
13 They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;
They have torn down pathway my to destruction my they benefit not a helper [belongs] to them.
14 As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack.
Like a breach wide they come under devastation they have rolled themselves.
15 Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud.
It has been turned on me sudden terror it pursues like the wind dignity my and like a cloud it has passed away prosperity my.
16 But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:
And now on me it pours itself out life my they seize me days of affliction.
17 The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.
Night bones my he has pierced from on me and gnawing [pains] my not they rest!
18 With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.
With greatness of strength it disguises itself clothing my like [the] mouth of tunic my he girds about me.
19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.
He has thrown me to the mud and I have become like like dust and ash[es].
20 You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer.
I cry for help to you and not you answer me I have stood and you have considered carefully me.
21 You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.
You change yourself into [one] cruel to me with [the] might of hand your you are hostile to me.
22 Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.
You lift up me to [the] wind you make ride me and you dissolve me (success. *Q(K)*)
23 For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
For I know death you will bring me and a house of appointed meeting for every living [thing].
24 Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?
Surely not on a heap of ruins anyone stretches out a hand or in disaster his to them a cry for help.
25 Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?
Not did I weep for [the] hard of day was it grieved? self my for the needy [person].
26 For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
If good I waited for and it came evil and I waited for light and it came darkness.
27 My feelings are strongly moved, and give me no rest; days of trouble have overtaken me.
Inward parts my they have been made to boil and not they have been still they have confronted me days of affliction.
28 I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.
Being dark I have gone about with not sun I have stood in the assembly I cry out for help.
29 I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.
A brother I have become of jackals and a companion of daughters of an ostrich.
30 My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease.
Skin my it has become black from on me and bone my it has burned from heat.
31 And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.
And it has become mourning harp my and flute my [the] sound of weepers.
