Job 30

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

²Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?SelectedJob 30:2CopyShareAsk

³For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.SelectedJob 30:3CopyShareAsk

⁴Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.SelectedJob 30:4CopyShareAsk

⁵They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)SelectedJob 30:5CopyShareAsk

⁶To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.SelectedJob 30:6CopyShareAsk

⁷Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.SelectedJob 30:7CopyShareAsk

⁸They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.SelectedJob 30:8CopyShareAsk

⁹And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.SelectedJob 30:9CopyShareAsk

¹⁰They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.SelectedJob 30:10CopyShareAsk

¹¹Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.SelectedJob 30:11CopyShareAsk

¹²Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.SelectedJob 30:12CopyShareAsk

¹³They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.SelectedJob 30:13CopyShareAsk

¹⁴They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.SelectedJob 30:14CopyShareAsk

¹⁵Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.SelectedJob 30:15CopyShareAsk

¹⁶And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.SelectedJob 30:16CopyShareAsk

¹⁷My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.SelectedJob 30:17CopyShareAsk

¹⁸By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.SelectedJob 30:18CopyShareAsk

¹⁹He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.SelectedJob 30:19CopyShareAsk

²⁰I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.SelectedJob 30:20CopyShareAsk

²¹Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.SelectedJob 30:21CopyShareAsk

²²Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.SelectedJob 30:22CopyShareAsk

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

²⁴Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.SelectedJob 30:24CopyShareAsk

²⁵Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?SelectedJob 30:25CopyShareAsk

²⁶When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.SelectedJob 30:26CopyShareAsk

²⁷My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.SelectedJob 30:27CopyShareAsk

²⁸I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.SelectedJob 30:28CopyShareAsk

²⁹I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.SelectedJob 30:29CopyShareAsk

³⁰My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.SelectedJob 30:30CopyShareAsk

³¹My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.SelectedJob 30:31CopyShareAsk