1 And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock. YLT — Job 30:1
2 Also — the power of their hands, why [is it] to me? On them hath old age perished. YLT — Job 30:2
3 With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste, YLT — Job 30:3
4 Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots [is] their food. YLT — Job 30:4
5 From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief), YLT — Job 30:5
6 In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts. YLT — Job 30:6
7 Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together. YLT — Job 30:7
8 Sons of folly — even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land. YLT — Job 30:8
9 And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword. YLT — Job 30:9
10 They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit. YLT — Job 30:10
11 Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away. YLT — Job 30:11
12 On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity. YLT — Job 30:12
13 They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, ‘He hath no helper.’ YLT — Job 30:13
14 As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves. YLT — Job 30:14
15 He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away. YLT — Job 30:15
16 And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction. YLT — Job 30:16
17 At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down. YLT — Job 30:17
18 By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me. YLT — Job 30:18
19 Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes. YLT — Job 30:19
20 I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me. YLT — Job 30:20
21 Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppresest me. YLT — Job 30:21
22 Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest — Thou levellest me. YLT — Job 30:22
23 For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And [to] the house appointed for all living. YLT — Job 30:23
24 Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety. YLT — Job 30:24
25 Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy. YLT — Job 30:25
26 When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh. YLT — Job 30:26
27 My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction. YLT — Job 30:27
28 Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry. YLT — Job 30:28
29 A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich. YLT — Job 30:29
30 My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat, YLT — Job 30:30
31 And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping. YLT — Job 30:31