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Job 30:14-31

14 They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].

14 They advance as through a gaping breach; amid the ruins they come rolling in.

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

15 Terrors overwhelm me; my dignity is driven away as by the wind, my safety vanishes like a cloud.

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

16 “And now my life ebbs away; days of suffering grip me.

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

17 Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never rest.

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

18 In his great power God becomes like clothing to me ; he binds me like the neck of my garment.

19 He hath cast me into the mire, 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 to thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me [not].

20 “I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me.

21 Thou hast become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

21 You turn on me ruthlessly; with the might of your hand you attack me.

22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it], and dissolvest my substance.

22 You snatch me up and drive me before the wind; you toss me about in the storm.

23 For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.

23 I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

24 Yet he will not stretch out [his] hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

24 “Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.

25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was [not] my soul grieved for the poor?

25 Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor?

26 When I looked for good, then evil came: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.

27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction came upon me.

27 The churning inside me never stops; days of suffering confront me.

28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation.

28 I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

29 I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of owls.

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

30 My skin grows black and peels; my body burns with fever.

31 My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

31 My lyre is tuned to mourning, and my pipe to the sound of wailing.

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