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| Job 30:1 | But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks. | 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. |
| Job 30:2 | Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them. | Yes, to what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age had perished? |
| Job 30:3 | They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land. | For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. |
| Job 30:4 | They are pulling off the salt leaves from the brushwood, and making a meal of roots. | Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food. |
| Job 30:5 | They are sent out from among their townsmen, men are crying after them as thieves | They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them, as after a thief;) |
| Job 30:6 | They have to get a resting-place in the hollows of the valleys, in holes of the earth and rocks. | To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. |
| Job 30:7 | They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns. | Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were collected. |
| Job 30:8 | They are sons of shame, and of men without a name, who have been forced out of the land. | They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. |
| Job 30:9 | And now I have become their song, and I am a word of shame to them. | And now I am their song, yes, I am their by-word. |
| Job 30:10 | I am disgusting to them; they keep away from me, and put marks of shame on me. | They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. |
| Job 30:11 | For he has made loose the cord of my bow, and put me to shame; he has sent down my flag to the earth before me. | Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. |
| Job 30:12 | The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me: | Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. |
| Job 30:13 | They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me; | They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. |
| Job 30:14 | As through a wide broken place in the wall they come on, I am overturned by the shock of their attack. | They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. |
| Job 30:15 | Fears have come on me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my well-being like a cloud. | Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. |
| Job 30:16 | But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me: | And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. |
| Job 30:17 | The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains. | My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. |
| Job 30:18 | With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat. | By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. |
| Job 30:19 | Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust. | He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. |
| Job 30:20 | You give no answer to my cry, and take no note of my prayer. | I cry to thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. |
| Job 30:21 | You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me. | Thou hast become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. |
| Job 30:22 | Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm. | Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance. |
| Job 30:23 | For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living. | For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. |
| Job 30:24 | Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble? | Yet he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. |
| Job 30:25 | Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need? | Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? |
| Job 30:26 | For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark. | When I looked for good, then evil came: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. |
| Job 30:27 | My feelings are strongly moved, and give me no rest; days of trouble have overtaken me. | My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction came upon me. |
| Job 30:28 | I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help. | I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. |
| Job 30:29 | I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches. | I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. |
| Job 30:30 | My skin is black and dropping off me; and my bones are burning with the heat of my disease. | My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. |
| Job 30:31 | And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping. | My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. |
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