Job30:1 But now [they that are] younger than I, have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Job30:2 Yes, to what [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age had perished?
Job30:3 For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Job30:4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their food.
Job30:5 They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them, as [after] a thief;)
Job30:6 To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.
Job30:7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were collected.
Job30:8 [They were] children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
Job30:9 And now I am their song, yes, I am their by-word.
Job30:10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
Job30:11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
Job30:12 Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Job30:13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
Job30:14 They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].
Job30:15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
Job30:16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Job30:17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
Job30:18 By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
Job30:19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
Job30:20 I cry to thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me [not].
Job30:21 Thou hast become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
Job30:22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it], and dissolvest my substance.
Job30:23 For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.
Job30:24 Yet he will not stretch out [his] hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
Job30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was [not] my soul grieved for the poor?
Job30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Job30:27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction came upon me.
Job30:28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation.
Job30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
Job30:30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Job30:31 My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.