THE BOOK OF JOB  --30

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But now those younger laugh at me, whose fathers I would have refused to set with the dogs of my flock. Job 30:1

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Also, what profit for me was the strength of their hands, for full vigor had perished from them? Job 30:2

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They are dried up with want and famine; they who gnaw the dry ground, which was before waste and ruin, Job 30:3

4

 

those plucking mallows by the bushes, and broom roots for their food. Job 30:4

5

 

They are driven forth from the midst; they cried against them as a thief. Job 30:5

6

 

They dwell in the chasms of the valleys, in holes of the earth and in rocks. Job 30:6

7

 

They bray among the bushes; they huddle together under the nettles; Job 30:7

8

 

sons of fools, yea, sons without a name; they have been whipped out of the land. Job 30:8

9

 

And now I am their song; yea, I am their byword. Job 30:9

10

 

They despise me, and they flee far from me; they do not spare spit from my face. Job 30:10

11

 

Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me, they have also thrown off the bridle before me. Job 30:11

12

 

On my right a brood rises; they push away my feet and raise up against me the ways of their ruin. Job 30:12

13

 

They have broken down my path, they gain by my trouble; they have no helper. Job 30:13

14

 

As through a wide break they came on; they roll under a ruin. Job 30:14

15

 

Terrors have turned on me; they pursue my soul like the wind; and my good passes away like a cloud. Job 30:15

16

 

And now my soul is poured out within me; the days of affliction have taken hold on me. Job 30:16

17

 

My bones are pierced in me in the night; and my gnawings never lie down. Job 30:17

18

 

By the great force of my disease my clothing is exposed; it binds me about like the mouth of my coat. Job 30:18

19

 

He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. Job 30:19

20

 

I cried to You, and You did not hear me; I stood up, and You did not consider me. Job 30:20

21

 

You changed to be cruel to me; with Your mighty hand You assault me. Job 30:21

22

 

You lift me up to the wind; You cause me to ride on it; and You melt me in a storm. Job 30:22

23

 

For I know that You will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. Job 30:23

24

 

Surely He will not stretch out His hand to the ruin-heap, though they cry in their misfortune. Job 30:24

25

 

Did I not weep for him whose day was hard; and my soul grieved for the poor? Job 30:25

26

 

When I looked for good, then evil came; and when I waited for light, then darkness came. Job 30:26

27

 

My bowels boiled, and did not rest; the days of trouble confront me. Job 30:27

28

 

I go in mourning with no sun; I stood up and I cried out in the congregation. Job 30:28

29

 

I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to daughters of the ostrich. Job 30:29

30

 

My skin is black on me, and my bones are burned with heat. Job 30:30

31

 

And my lyre has turned to mourning, and my flute to the sound of weeping. Job 30:31

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