Job 30
1 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.
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 Yes, to what [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age had perished?
Yea, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished?
3 For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:
4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their food.
They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
5 They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them, as [after] a thief; )
They are driven forth from among [men] — they cry after them as after a thief —
6 To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.
To dwell in gloomy gorges, in caves of the earth and the rocks:
7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were collected.
They bray among the bushes; under the brambles they are gathered together:
8 [They were] children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.
9 And now I am their song, yes, I am their by-word.
And now I am their song, yea, I am their byword.
10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, yea, they spare not to spit in my face.
11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
For he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me; so they cast off the bridle before me.
12 Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
At [my] right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;
13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, without any to help them;
14 They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].
They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.
15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.
16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
And now my soul is poured out in me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
The night pierceth through my bones [and detacheth them] from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:
18 By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.
19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
20 I cry to thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me [not].
I cry unto thee, and thou answerest me not; I stand up, and thou lookest at me.
21 Thou hast become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
Thou art changed to a cruel one to me; with the strength of thy hand thou pursuest me.
22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it], and dissolvest my substance.
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance.
23 For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.
24 Yet he will not stretch out [his] hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
Indeed, no prayer [availeth] when he stretcheth out [his] hand: though they cry when he destroyeth.
25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was [not] my soul grieved for the poor?
Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy?
26 When I looked for good, then evil came: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.
27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction came upon me.
My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me.
28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation.
I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation.
29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches.
30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
My skin is become black [and falleth] off me, and my bones are parched with heat.
31 My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers.
