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 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, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished.
3 In poverty and in hunger barren the [ones who] gnaw a dry region yesterday of ruin and desolation.
They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground; in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.
4 Those [who] pluck off mallow on bush[es] and [the] root of broom plants [for] food their.
They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; and the roots of the broom [are] their meat.
5 From [the] community they are driven away people shout on them like thief.
They are driven forth from the midst [of men]; they cry after them as after a thief.
6 On [the] slope of wadis to dwell holes of [the] ground and rocks.
In the clefts of the valleys must they dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
7 Between bushes they bray under nettle[s] they are joined together.
Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they are gathered together.
8 Sons of a fool also sons of not a name they have been scourged from the land.
[They are] children of fools, yea, children of base men; they were scourged 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 become their song, yea, I am a byword unto them.
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, and 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 his cord, and afflicted me, and they have 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.
Upon my right hand rise the rabble; they thrust aside my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
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, [even] men that have no helper.
14 Like a breach wide they come under devastation they have rolled themselves.
As through a wide breach they come: in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me].
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 upon me, they chase mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away as 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 within 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!
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.
18 With greatness of strength it disguises itself clothing my like [the] mouth of tunic my he girds about me.
By the great force [of my disease] is my garment disfigured: it bindeth 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 am 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 dost not answer me: 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 turned to be cruel to me: with the might of thy hand thou persecutest 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 ride [upon it]; and thou dissolvest me in the storm.
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 to the house appointed 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.
Surely against a ruinous heap he will not put forth his hand; though [it be] in his destruction, [one may utter] a cry because of these things.
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 that was in trouble? 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.
When I looked for good, then evil came; and when I waited for light, 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 boil, and rest not; days of affliction are come upon me.
28 Being dark I have gone about with not sun I have stood in the assembly I cry out for help.
I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
29 A brother I have become of jackals and a companion of daughters of an ostrich.
I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
30 Skin my it has become black from on me and bone my it has burned from heat.
My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, and my bones are burned with heat.
31 And it has become mourning harp my and flute my [the] sound of weepers.
Therefore is my harp [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
