30Job 30

1And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.Select Job 30:1

2Also--the power of their hands, why is it to me? On them hath old age perished.Select Job 30:2

3With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,Select Job 30:3

4Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots is their food.Select Job 30:4

5From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),Select Job 30:5

6In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts.Select Job 30:6

7Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.Select Job 30:7

8Sons of folly--even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.Select Job 30:8

9And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.Select Job 30:9

10They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.Select Job 30:10

11Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.Select Job 30:11

12On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.Select Job 30:12

13They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, `He hath no helper.'Select Job 30:13

14As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.Select Job 30:14

15He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.Select Job 30:15

16And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction.Select Job 30:16

17At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.Select Job 30:17

18By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me.Select Job 30:18

19Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.Select Job 30:19

20I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me.Select Job 30:20

21Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppressest me.Select Job 30:21

22Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest--Thou levellest me.Select Job 30:22

23For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And to the house appointed for all living.Select Job 30:23

24Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.Select Job 30:24

25Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.Select Job 30:25

26When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.Select Job 30:26

27My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.Select Job 30:27

28Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry.Select Job 30:28

29A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.Select Job 30:29

30My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,Select Job 30:30

31And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.Select Job 30:31