30Job 30

CHAP. XXX. / 1 Iobs honour is turned into extreme contempt. 15 His prosperitie into calamitie.

1But nowe they that are yonger then I, haue mee in derision, whose fathers I would haue disdained to haue set with the dogs of my flocke.Select Job 30:1

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

3For want and famine they were solitarie: flying into the wildernesse in former time desolate and waste:Select Job 30:3

4Who cut vp mallowes by the bushes, and Iuniper rootes for their meate.Select Job 30:4

5They were driuen foorth from among men, (they cried after them, as after a thiefe.)Select Job 30:5

6To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caues of the earth, and in the rockes.Select Job 30:6

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

8They were children of fooles, yea children of base men: they were viler then the earth.Select Job 30:8

9And now am I their song, yea I am their by-word.Select Job 30:9

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

11Because hee hath loosed my cord and afflicted me, they haue also let loose the bridle before me.Select Job 30:11

12Upon my right hand rise the youth, they push away my feete, and they raise vp against mee the wayes of their destruction.Select Job 30:12

13They marre my path, they set forward my calamitie, they haue no helper.Select Job 30:13

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

15Terrours are turned vpon mee: they pursue my soule as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloude.Select Job 30:15

16And now my soule is powred out vpon me: the dayes of affliction haue taken hold vpon me.Select Job 30:16

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

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

19He hath cast mee into the myre, and I am become like dust and ashes.Select Job 30:19

20I crie vnto thee, and thou doest not heare me: I stand vp, and thou regardest me not.Select Job 30:20

21Thou art become cruell to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thy selfe against me.Select Job 30:21

22Thou liftest me vp to the wind: thou causest me to ride vpon it, and dissoluest my substance.Select Job 30:22

23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all liuing.Select Job 30:23

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

25Did not I weepe for him that was in trouble? was not my soule grieued for the poore?Select Job 30:25

26When I looked for good, then euill came vnto mee: and when I waited for light, there came darkenes.Select Job 30:26

27My bowels boyled and rested not: the dayes of affliction preuented mee.Select Job 30:27

28I went mourning without the Sunne: I stood vp, and I cried in the Congregation.Select Job 30:28

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

30My skinne is blacke vpon mee, and my bones are burnt with heat.Select Job 30:30

31My harpe also is turned to mourning, and my organe into the voyce of them that weepe.Select Job 30:31