30Job 30

1But 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.Select Job 30:1

2Yes, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?Select Job 30:2

3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.Select Job 30:3

4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.Select Job 30:4

5They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)Select Job 30:5

6To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.Select Job 30:6

7Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.Select Job 30:7

8They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.Select Job 30:8

9And now am I their song, yes, I am their byword.Select Job 30:9

10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.Select Job 30:10

11Because he has loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.Select Job 30:11

12On my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.Select Job 30:12

13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.Select Job 30:13

14They came on me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves on me.Select Job 30:14

15Terrors are turned on me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passes away as a cloud.Select Job 30:15

16And now my soul is poured out on me; the days of affliction have taken hold on me.Select Job 30:16

17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.Select Job 30:17

18By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it binds me about as the collar of my coat.Select Job 30:18

19He has cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.Select Job 30:19

20I cry to you, and you do not hear me: I stand up, and you regard me not.Select Job 30:20

21You are become cruel to me: with your strong hand you oppose yourself against me.Select Job 30:21

22You lift me up to the wind; you cause me to ride on it, and dissolve my substance.Select Job 30:22

23For I know that you will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.Select Job 30:23

24However, he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.Select Job 30:24

25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?Select Job 30:25

26When I looked for good, then evil came to me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.Select Job 30:26

27My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.Select Job 30:27

28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.Select Job 30:28

29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.Select Job 30:29

30My skin is black on me, and my bones are burned with heat.Select Job 30:30

31My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.Select Job 30:31