Job 30:1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose
fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Job 30:2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old
age was perished?
Job 30:3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in
former time desolate and waste.
Job 30:4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
Job 30:5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after
a thief;)
Job 30:6 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in
the rocks.
Job 30:7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered
together.
Job 30:8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler
than the earth.
Job 30:9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
Job 30:10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my
face.
Job 30:11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let
loose the bridle before me.
Job 30:12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they
raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Job 30:13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
Job 30:14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation
they rolled themselves upon me.
Job 30:15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my
welfare passeth away as a cloud.
Job 30:16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have
taken hold upon me.
Job 30:17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no
rest.
Job 30:18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me
about as the collar of my coat.
Job 30:19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Job 30:20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou
regardest me not.
Job 30:21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest
thyself against me.
Job 30:22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and
dissolvest my substance.
Job 30:23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house
appointed for all living.
Job 30:24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry
in his destruction.
Job 30:25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved
for the poor?
Job 30:26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for
light, there came darkness.
Job 30:27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
Job 30:28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the
congregation.
Job 30:29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
Job 30:30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Job 30:31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of
them that weep.