Job 30
1 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.
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.
2 Also [the] strength of hands their why? to me on them it had perished vigor.
Yea, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished?
3 In poverty and in hunger barren the [ones who] gnaw a dry region yesterday of ruin and desolation.
Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:
4 Those [who] pluck off mallow on bush[es] and [the] root of broom plants [for] food their.
They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
5 From [the] community they are driven away people shout on them like thief.
They are driven forth from among [men] — they cry after them as after a thief —
6 On [the] slope of wadis to dwell holes of [the] ground and rocks.
To dwell in gloomy gorges, in caves of the earth and the rocks:
7 Between bushes they bray under nettle[s] they are joined together.
They bray among the bushes; under the brambles they are gathered together:
8 Sons of a fool also sons of not a name they have been scourged from the land.
Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.
9 And now taunt song their I have become and I have become for them a word.
And now I am their song, yea, I am their byword.
10 They abhor me they are distant from me and from face my not they have withheld spittle.
They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, yea, they spare not to spit in my face.
11 For (string my *Q(K)*) he has loosened and he has afflicted me and [the] halter from before me they have sent away.
For he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me; so they cast off the bridle before me.
12 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.
At [my] right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;
13 They have torn down pathway my to destruction my they benefit not a helper [belongs] to them.
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, without any to help them;
14 Like a breach wide they come under devastation they have rolled themselves.
They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.
15 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.
Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.
16 And now on me it pours itself out life my they seize me days of affliction.
And now my soul is poured out in me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17 Night bones my he has pierced from on me and gnawing [pains] my not they rest!
The night pierceth through my bones [and detacheth them] from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:
18 With greatness of strength it disguises itself clothing my like [the] mouth of tunic my he girds about me.
By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.
19 He has thrown me to the mud and I have become like like dust and ash[es].
He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
20 I cry for help to you and not you answer me I have stood and you have considered carefully me.
I cry unto thee, and thou answerest me not; I stand up, and thou lookest at me.
21 You change yourself into [one] cruel to me with [the] might of hand your you are hostile to me.
Thou art changed to a cruel one to me; with the strength of thy hand thou pursuest me.
22 You lift up me to [the] wind you make ride me and you dissolve me (success. *Q(K)*)
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance.
23 For I know death you will bring me and a house of appointed meeting for every living [thing].
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.
24 Surely not on a heap of ruins anyone stretches out a hand or in disaster his to them a cry for help.
Indeed, no prayer [availeth] when he stretcheth out [his] hand: though they cry when he destroyeth.
25 Not did I weep for [the] hard of day was it grieved? self my for the needy [person].
Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy?
26 If good I waited for and it came evil and I waited for light and it came darkness.
For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.
27 Inward parts my they have been made to boil and not they have been still they have confronted me days of affliction.
My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me.
28 Being dark I have gone about with not sun I have stood in the assembly I cry out for help.
I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation.
29 A brother I have become of jackals and a companion of daughters of an ostrich.
I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches.
30 Skin my it has become black from on me and bone my it has burned from heat.
My skin is become black [and falleth] off me, and my bones are parched with heat.
31 And it has become mourning harp my and flute my [the] sound of weepers.
My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers.
