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 the youngest have laughed me to scorn, now they reprove me in [their] turn, whose fathers I set at nothing; whom I did not deem worthy [to be with] my shepherd dogs.
2 Also [the] strength of hands their why? to me on them it had perished vigor.
Yes, why had I the strength of their hands? for them the full term [of life] was lost.
3 In poverty and in hunger barren the [ones who] gnaw a dry region yesterday of ruin and desolation.
[One is] childless in lack and famine, [such as] they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.
4 Those [who] pluck off mallow on bush[es] and [the] root of broom plants [for] food their.
Who compass the salt places on the sounding [shore], who had salt [herbs] for their food, and were dishonorable and of no repute, in lack of every good thing; who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.
5 From [the] community they are driven away people shout on them like thief.
Thieves have risen up against me,
6 On [the] slope of wadis to dwell holes of [the] ground and rocks.
whose houses were the caves of the rocks, who lived under the wild shrubs.
7 Between bushes they bray under nettle[s] they are joined together.
They will cry out among the rustling [bushes].
8 Sons of a fool also sons of not a name they have been scourged from the land.
[They are] sons of fools and vile men, [whose] name and glory [are] quenched from off the earth.
9 And now taunt song their I have become and I have become for them a word.
But now I am their music, and they have me for a byword.
10 They abhor me they are distant from me and from face my not they have withheld spittle.
And they stood aloof and abhorred me, and spared 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 has opened his quiver and afflicted me: they also have cast off the restraint of my presence.
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.
They have risen up against [me] on the right hand of [their] offspring; they have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction.
13 They have torn down pathway my to destruction my they benefit not a helper [belongs] to them.
My paths are ruined; for they have stripped off my raiment: he has shot at me with his weapons.
14 Like a breach wide they come under devastation they have rolled themselves.
And he has pleaded against me as he will: I am overwhelmed with pains.
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.
My pains return upon [me]; my hope is gone like the wind, and my safety as a cloud.
16 And now on me it pours itself out life my they seize me days of affliction.
Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me; and days of anguish seize me.
17 Night bones my he has pierced from on me and gnawing [pains] my not they rest!
And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed.
18 With greatness of strength it disguises itself clothing my like [the] mouth of tunic my he girds about me.
With great force [my disease] has taken hold of my garment: it has compassed me as the collar of my coat.
19 He has thrown me to the mud and I have become like like dust and ash[es].
And you have counted me as clay; my portion in dust and ashes.
20 I cry for help to you and not you answer me I have stood and you have considered carefully me.
And I have cried to you, but you hear me not: but they stood still, and observed me.
21 You change yourself into [one] cruel to me with [the] might of hand your you are hostile to me.
They attacked me also without mercy: you have scourged me with a strong hand.
22 You lift up me to [the] wind you make ride me and you dissolve me (success. *Q(K)*)
And you have put me to grief, and have cast me away from safety.
23 For I know death you will bring me and a house of appointed meeting for every living [thing].
For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house [appointed] for every mortal.
24 Surely not on a heap of ruins anyone stretches out a hand or in disaster his to them a cry for help.
Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself, or at least ask another, and he should do this for me.
25 Not did I weep for [the] hard of day was it grieved? self my for the needy [person].
Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.
26 If good I waited for and it came evil and I waited for light and it came darkness.
But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me.
27 Inward parts my they have been made to boil and not they have been still they have confronted me days of affliction.
My belly boiled, and would not cease: the days of poverty prevented me.
28 Being dark I have gone about with not sun I have stood in the assembly I cry out for help.
I went mourning without restraint: and I have stood and cried out in the assembly.
29 A brother I have become of jackals and a companion of daughters of an ostrich.
I am become a brother of monsters, and a companion of ostriches.
30 Skin my it has become black from on me and bone my it has burned from heat.
And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat.
31 And it has become mourning harp my and flute my [the] sound of weepers.
My harp also has been turned into mourning, and my song into my weeping.
