30Job 30

1But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:Select Job 30:1

2The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.Select Job 30:2

3Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.Select Job 30:3

4And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.Select Job 30:4

5Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.Select Job 30:5

6They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel.Select Job 30:6

7They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted it delightful to be under the briers.Select Job 30:7

8The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.Select Job 30:8

9Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.Select Job 30:9

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

11For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath put a bridle into my mouth.Select Job 30:11

12At the right hand of my rising, my calamities forthwith arose: they have overthrown my feet, and have overwhelmed me with their paths as with waves.Select Job 30:12

13They have destroyed my ways, they have lain in wait against me, and they have prevailed, and there was none to help.Select Job 30:13

14They have rushed in upon me, as when a wall is broken, and a gate opened, and have rolled themselves down to my miseries.Select Job 30:14

15I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.Select Job 30:15

16And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me.Select Job 30:16

17In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.Select Job 30:17

18With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat.Select Job 30:18

19I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.Select Job 30:19

20I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.Select Job 30:20

21Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.Select Job 30:21

22Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me.Select Job 30:22

23I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.Select Job 30:23

24But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.Select Job 30:24

25I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.Select Job 30:25

26I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.Select Job 30:26

27My inner parts have boiled without any rest, the days of affliction have prevented me.Select Job 30:27

28I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd.Select Job 30:28

29I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.Select Job 30:29

30My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.Select Job 30:30

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