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Job 30

¹"But now those who are younger than I, have me in derision, Whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

²Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, Men in whom ripe age has perished?

³They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.

⁴They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.

⁵They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief;

⁶So that they dwell in frightful valleys, And in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

⁷Among the bushes they bray; And under the nettles they are gathered together.

⁸They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.

⁹"Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.

¹⁰They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And don`t hesitate to spit in my face.

¹¹For he has loosed his cord, and afflicted me; And they have thrown off restraint before me.

¹²On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.

¹³They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, Without anyone`s help.

¹⁴As through a wide breach they come, In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.

¹⁵Terrors are turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.

¹⁶"Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.

¹⁷In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

¹⁸By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

¹⁹He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.

²⁰I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.

²¹You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.

²²You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.

²³For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.

²⁴"However doesn`t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

²⁵Didn`t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn`t my soul grieved for the needy?

²⁶When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.

²⁷My heart is troubled, and doesn`t rest. Days of affliction have come on me.

²⁸I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

²⁹I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.

³⁰My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

³¹Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

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