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Job 30

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1 But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.
1 “But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
2 What use to me was the strength of their hands? Their vigor had left them.
2 Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?
3 Emaciated from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, the desolate wasteland by night.
3 Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.
4 They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
4 In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom bush.
5 They were expelled from human society; people shouted at them as [if they were] thieves.
5 They were banished from human society, shouted at as if they were thieves.
6 They are living on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
6 They were forced to live in the dry stream beds, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
7 They bray among the shrubs; they huddle beneath the thistles.
7 They brayed among the bushes and huddled in the undergrowth.
8 Foolish men, without even a name! They were forced to leave the land.
8 A base and nameless brood, they were driven out of the land.
9 Now I am mocked by their songs; I have become an object of scorn to them.
9 “And now those young men mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
10 They despise me and keep their distance from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
10 They detest me and keep their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
11 Because God has loosened my bowstring and oppressed me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.
11 Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they throw off restraint in my presence.
12 The rabble rise up at my right; they trap my feet and construct their siege ramp against me.
12 On my right the tribe attacks; they lay snares for my feet, they build their siege ramps against me.
13 They tear up my path; they contribute to my destruction, without anyone to help them.
13 They break up my road; they succeed in destroying me. ‘No one can help him,’ they say.
14 They advance as through a gaping breach; they keep rolling in through the ruins.
14 They advance as through a gaping breach; amid the ruins they come rolling in.
15 Terrors are turned loose against me; they chase my dignity away like the wind, and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.
15 Terrors overwhelm me; my dignity is driven away as by the wind, my safety vanishes like a cloud.
16 Now my life is poured out before my [eyes], and days of suffering have seized me.
16 “And now my life ebbs away; days of suffering grip me.
17 Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never abate.
17 Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never rest.
18 My clothing is distorted with great force; He chokes me by the neck of my garment.
18 In his great power God becomes like clothing to me ; he binds me like the neck of my garment.
19 He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
19 He throws me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.
20 I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me; when I stand up, You [merely] look at me.
20 “I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me.
21 You have turned against me with cruelty; You harass me with Your strong hand.
21 You turn on me ruthlessly; with the might of your hand you attack me.
22 You lift me up on the wind and make me ride [it]; You scatter me in the storm.
22 You snatch me up and drive me before the wind; you toss me about in the storm.
23 Yes, I know that You will lead me to death- the place appointed for all who live.
23 I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
24 Yet no one would stretch out [his] hand against a ruined man when he cries out to him for help because of his distress.
24 “Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.
25 Have I not wept for those who have fallen on hard times? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
25 Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor?
26 But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness came.
26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.
27 I am churning within and cannot rest; days of suffering confront me.
27 The churning inside me never stops; days of suffering confront me.
28 I walk about blackened, but not by the sun. I stood in the assembly and cried out for help.
28 I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
29 I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.
29 I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of owls.
30 My skin blackens and flakes off, and my bones burn with fever.
30 My skin grows black and peels; my body burns with fever.
31 My lyre is [used] for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.
31 My lyre is tuned to mourning, and my pipe to the sound of wailing.
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