< 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.
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 Also—the power of their hands, why [is it] to me? On them old age has perished.
Also [the] strength of hands their why? to me on them it had perished vigor.
3 With want and with harsh famine, They are gnawing a dry place [in] the recent night, [In] desolation and ruin,
In poverty and in hunger barren the [ones who] gnaw a dry region yesterday of ruin and desolation.
4 Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And their food [is] root of broom trees.
Those [who] pluck off mallow on bush[es] and [the] root of broom plants [for] food their.
5 They are cast out from the midst (They shout against them as a thief),
From [the] community they are driven away people shout on them like thief.
6 To dwell in a frightful place of valleys, Holes of earth and clefts.
On [the] slope of wadis to dwell holes of [the] ground and rocks.
7 They groan among shrubs, They are gathered together under nettles.
Between bushes they bray under nettle[s] they are joined together.
8 Sons of folly—even sons without name, They have been struck from the land.
Sons of a fool also sons of not a name they have been scourged from the land.
9 And now, I have been their song, And I am to them for a byword.
And now taunt song their I have become and I have become for them a word.
10 They have detested me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.
They abhor me they are distant from me and from face my not they have withheld spittle.
11 Because He loosed His cord and afflicts me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.
For (string my *Q(K)*) he has loosened and he has afflicted me and [the] halter from before me they have sent away.
12 A brood arises on the right hand, They have cast away my feet, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.
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 broken down my path, They profit by my calamity: He has no helper.
They have torn down pathway my to destruction my they benefit not a helper [belongs] to them.
14 They come as a wide breach, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.
Like a breach wide they come under devastation they have rolled themselves.
15 He has turned terrors against me, It pursues my abundance as the wind, And as a thick cloud, My safety has passed away.
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 And now, in me my soul pours itself out, Days of affliction seize me.
And now on me it pours itself out life my they seize me days of affliction.
17 [At] night my bone has been pierced in me, And my gnawing [pain] does not lie down.
Night bones my he has pierced from on me and gnawing [pains] my not they rest!
18 By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it girds me.
With greatness of strength it disguises itself clothing my like [the] mouth of tunic my he girds about me.
19 Casting me into mire, And I have become like dust and ashes.
He has thrown me to the mud and I have become like like dust and ash[es].
20 I cry to You, And You do not answer me, I have stood, and You consider me.
I cry for help to you and not you answer me I have stood and you have considered carefully me.
21 You are turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Your hand, You oppress me.
You change yourself into [one] cruel to me with [the] might of hand your you are hostile to me.
22 You lift me up, You cause me to ride on the wind, And You melt—You level me.
You lift up me to [the] wind you make ride me and you dissolve me (success. *Q(K)*)
23 For I have known You bring me back [to] death, And [to] the house appointed for all living.
For I know death you will bring me and a house of appointed meeting for every living [thing].
24 Surely not against the heap Does He send forth the hand, Though they have safety in its ruin.
Surely not on a heap of ruins anyone stretches out a hand or in disaster his to them a cry for help.
25 Did I not weep for him whose day is hard? My soul has grieved for the needy.
Not did I weep for [the] hard of day was it grieved? self my for the needy [person].
26 When I expected good, then comes evil, And I wait for light, and darkness comes.
If good I waited for and it came evil and I waited for light and it came darkness.
27 My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Days of affliction have gone before 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 have gone mourning without the sun, I have risen, I cry in an assembly.
Being dark I have gone about with not sun I have stood in the assembly I cry out for help.
29 I have been a brother to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.
A brother I have become of jackals and a companion of daughters of an ostrich.
30 My skin has been black on me, And my bone has burned from heat,
Skin my it has become black from on me and bone my it has burned from heat.
31 And my harp becomes mourning, And my pipe the sound of weeping.”
And it has become mourning harp my and flute my [the] sound of weepers.

< Job 30 >