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 those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.
2 Also [the] strength of hands their why? to me on them it had perished vigor.
Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
3 In poverty and in hunger barren the [ones who] gnaw a dry region yesterday of ruin and desolation.
They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
4 Those [who] pluck off mallow on bush[es] and [the] root of broom plants [for] food their.
They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.
5 From [the] community they are driven away people shout on them like thief.
They are driven out 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.
so that they live in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
7 Between bushes they bray under nettle[s] they are joined together.
They bray among the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles.
8 Sons of a fool also sons of not a name they have been scourged from the land.
They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land.
9 And now taunt song their I have become and I have become for them a word.
“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to 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 don’t hesitate 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 untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint 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.
On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet. They cast their ways of destruction up against me.
13 They have torn down pathway my to destruction my they benefit not a helper [belongs] to them.
They mar my path. They promote my destruction without anyone’s help.
14 Like a breach wide they come under devastation they have rolled themselves.
As through a wide breach they come. They roll themselves in amid the ruin.
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 have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
16 And now on me it pours itself out life my they seize me days of affliction.
“Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of 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.
My garment is disfigured by great force. It binds me about as the collar of my tunic.
19 He has thrown me to the mud and I have become like like dust and ash[es].
He has cast me into the mire. 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 to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.
21 You change yourself into [one] cruel to me with [the] might of hand your you are hostile to me.
You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.
22 You lift up me to [the] wind you make ride me and you dissolve me (success. *Q(K)*)
You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve 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 you will bring me to death, 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.
“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
25 Not did I weep for [the] hard of day was it grieved? self my for the needy [person].
Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t 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. When I waited for light, darkness came.
27 Inward parts my they have been made to boil and not they have been still they have confronted me days of affliction.
My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. Days of affliction have come on 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 grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
31 And it has become mourning harp my and flute my [the] sound of weepers.
Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
