| Job 30:1 |
But now those who are younger than I / Hold me in derision, / Those whose fathers I disdained / To put with the dogs of my flock. |
| Job 30:2 |
Indeed, what [good] is the strength of their hands to me? / [Their] vigor has perished from them. |
| Job 30:3 |
Withered up through want and hunger, / They gnaw at the dry ground, / A gloom of waste and desolation. |
| Job 30:4 |
They pick the mallow upon the bushes, / And the roots of the broom shrub are their food. |
| Job 30:5 |
They are driven from the company [of men;] / [Men] cry after them as after a thief; |
| Job 30:6 |
So that they must dwell in the most dreadful ravines, / In caves of the earth and in the rocks. |
| Job 30:7 |
Among the bushes they bray; / Under the nettles they huddle. |
| Job 30:8 |
Sons of fools, indeed sons of nameless men, / They have been stricken from the land. |
| Job 30:9 |
And now I have become their song, / And I am a byword to them. |
| Job 30:10 |
They abhor me; they stand aloof from me; / And they do not withhold [their] spit from my face. |
| Job 30:11 |
For He has loosened my cord and afflicted me; / Therefore they have cast off restraint in my presence. |
| Job 30:12 |
At my right hand a brood rises up; / They send my feet [running] / And cast up against me their ways of destruction. |
| Job 30:13 |
They break up my path; / They promote my calamity, / Though there is no profit to them. |
| Job 30:14 |
As through a wide breach they come in; / Amid the ruin they roll on. |
| Job 30:15 |
Terrors are turned upon me; / My honor is pursued as by a wind, / And my prosperity passes away like a cloud. |
| Job 30:16 |
And now my soul is poured out within me; / Days of affliction have taken hold of me. |
| Job 30:17 |
The night rends my bones from me, / And my gnawing pains do not rest. |
| Job 30:18 |
With great force my garments are distorted; / It binds me like the collar of my coat. |
| Job 30:19 |
He has cast me into the mire, / And I am like dust and ashes. |
| Job 30:20 |
I cry unto You, but You do not answer me; / I stand up, and You stare at me. |
| Job 30:21 |
You have turned to become cruel to me; / With the might of Your hand You pursue me. |
| Job 30:22 |
You lift me up into the wind; You make me ride on it; / And You dissolve me in the storm. |
| Job 30:23 |
For I know that You will bring me into death, / And to the house appointed for all living. |
| Job 30:24 |
Nevertheless does not a man put forth [his] hand when he falls, / Or because of his disaster therefore cry out? |
| Job 30:25 |
Did I not weep for him who had hard days? / Was my soul not grieved for the needy? |
| Job 30:26 |
When I expected good, evil came; / And when I waited for light, darkness came. |
| Job 30:27 |
My inward parts are in turmoil and are not still; / Days of affliction have drawn near to me. |
| Job 30:28 |
I go about in sunless mourning. / I rise up in the congregation; I cry for help. |
| Job 30:29 |
I am a brother to jackals / And a companion to ostriches. |
| Job 30:30 |
My skin is black [and falling] from me, / And my bones burn with heat. |
| Job 30:31 |
My lyre has become mourning, / And my pipe, the voice of those who weep. |