Parallel Bible results for "Job 30:1-9"

Job 30:1-9

New Revised Standard NRS

1 "But now they make sport of me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

2 What could I gain from the strength of their hands? All their vigor is gone.

3 Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry and desolate ground,

4 they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes, and to warm themselves the roots of broom.

5 They are driven out from society; people shout after them as after a thief.

6 In the gullies of wadis they must live, in holes in the ground, and in the rocks.

7 Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together.

8 A senseless, disreputable brood, they have been whipped out of the land.

9 "And now they mock me in song; I am a byword to them.

New International Version NIV

1 “But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

2 Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?

3 Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.

4 In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom bush.

5 They were banished from human society, shouted at as if they were thieves.

6 They were forced to live in the dry stream beds, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

7 They brayed among the bushes and huddled in the undergrowth.

8 A base and nameless brood, they were driven out of the land.

9 “And now those young men mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.