Job 30

1 “But now those who are younger than I, have me in derision, Whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.WEB — Job 30:1

2 Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, Men in whom ripe age has perished?WEB — Job 30:2

3 They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.WEB — Job 30:3

4 They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.WEB — Job 30:4

5 They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief;WEB — Job 30:5

6 So that they dwell in frightful valleys, And in holes of the earth and of the rocks.WEB — Job 30:6

7 Among the bushes they bray; And under the nettles they are gathered together.WEB — Job 30:7

8 They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.WEB — Job 30:8

9 “Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.WEB — Job 30:9

10 They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And don't hesitate to spit in my face.WEB — Job 30:10

11 For he has loosed his cord, and afflicted me; And they have thrown off restraint before me.WEB — Job 30:11

12 On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.WEB — Job 30:12

13 They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, Without anyone's help.WEB — Job 30:13

14 As through a wide breach they come, In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.WEB — Job 30:14

15 Terrors are turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.WEB — Job 30:15

16 “Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.WEB — Job 30:16

17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.WEB — Job 30:17

18 By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.WEB — Job 30:18

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

20 I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.WEB — Job 30:20

21 You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.WEB — Job 30:21

22 You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.WEB — Job 30:22

23 For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.WEB — Job 30:23

24 “However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?WEB — Job 30:24

25 Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?WEB — Job 30:25

26 When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.WEB — Job 30:26

27 My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me.WEB — Job 30:27

28 I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.WEB — Job 30:28

29 I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.WEB — Job 30:29

30 My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.WEB — Job 30:30

31 Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of those who weep.WEB — Job 30:31