Job 30

1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.RV1885 — Job 30:1

2 Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished.RV1885 — Job 30:2

3 They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground; in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.RV1885 — Job 30:3

4 They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; and the roots of the broom are their meat.RV1885 — Job 30:4

5 They are driven forth from the midst of men; they cry after them as after a thief.RV1885 — Job 30:5

6 In the clefts of the valleys must they dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.RV1885 — Job 30:6

7 Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they are gathered together.RV1885 — Job 30:7

8 They are children of fools, yea, children of base men; they were scourged out of the land.RV1885 — Job 30:8

9 And now I am become their song, yea, I am a byword unto them.RV1885 — Job 30:9

10 They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and spare not to spit in my face.RV1885 — Job 30:10

11 For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me, and they have cast off the bridle before me.RV1885 — Job 30:11

12 Upon my right hand rise the rabble; they thrust aside my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction.RV1885 — Job 30:12

13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, even men that have no helper.RV1885 — Job 30:13

14 As through a wide breach they come: in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me.RV1885 — Job 30:14

15 Terrors are turned upon me, they chase mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away as a cloud.RV1885 — Job 30:15

16 And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me.RV1885 — Job 30:16

17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.RV1885 — Job 30:17

18 By the great force of my disease is my garment disfigured: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.RV1885 — Job 30:18

19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.RV1885 — Job 30:19

20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not answer me: I stand up, and thou lookest at me.RV1885 — Job 30:20

21 Thou art turned to be cruel to me: with the might of thy hand thou persecutest me.RV1885 — Job 30:21

22 Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride upon it; and thou dissolvest me in the storm.RV1885 — Job 30:22

23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.RV1885 — Job 30:23

24 Surely against a ruinous heap he will not put forth his hand; though it be in his destruction, one may utter a cry because of these things.RV1885 — Job 30:24

25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the needy?RV1885 — Job 30:25

26 When I looked for good, then evil came; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.RV1885 — Job 30:26

27 My bowels boil, and rest not; days of affliction are come upon me.RV1885 — Job 30:27

28 I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.RV1885 — Job 30:28

29 I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.RV1885 — Job 30:29

30 My skin is black, and falleth from me, and my bones are burned with heat.RV1885 — Job 30:30

31 Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of them that weep.RV1885 — Job 30:31