AB - Job - 30

30:1  But now the youngest have laughed me to scorn; now they reprove me in their turn, whose fathers I set at nought; whom I did not deem worthy to be with my shepherd dogs.

30:2  Yea, why did I have the strength of their hands? For them the full term of life was lost.

30:3  One is childless from want and famine, such as they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.

30:4  Who compass the salty places on the sounding shore, who had salt herbs for their food, and were dishonorable and of no repute, in need of every good thing; who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.

30:5  Thieves have risen up against me,

30:6  whose houses were the caves of the rocks, who lived under the wild shrubs.

30:7  They will cry out among the rustling bushes.

30:8  They are sons of fools and vile men, whose name and glory are quenched from off the earth.

30:9  But now I am their music, and they have me for a byword.

30:10  And they stood aloof and abhorred me, and spared not to spit in my face.

30:11  For He has opened His quiver and afflicted me: they also have cast off the restraint of my presence.

30:12  They have risen up against me on the right hand of their offspring; they have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction.

30:13  My paths are ruined, for they have stripped off my raiment: He has shot at me with His weapons.

30:14  And He has pleaded against me as He wills-I am overwhelmed with pains.

30:15  My pains return upon me; my hope is gone like the wind, and my safety as a cloud.

30:16  Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me, and days of anguish seize me.

30:17  And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed.

30:18  With great force my disease has taken hold of my garment-it has compassed me as the collar of my coat.

30:19  And You have counted me as clay; my portion in dust and ashes.

30:20  And I have cried to You, but You do not hear me: but they stood still, and observed me.

30:21  They attacked me also without mercy: You have scourged me with a strong hand.

30:22  And You have put me to grief, and have cast me away from safety.

30:23  For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house appointed for every mortal.

30:24  Oh, that I might lay hands upon myself, or at least ask another, and he should do this for me!

30:25  Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.

30:26  But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came upon me all the more.

30:27  My belly boiled, and would not cease-the days of poverty prevented me.

30:28  I went mourning without restraint, and I have stood and cried out in the assembly.

30:29  I have become a brother of monsters, and a companion of ostriches.

30:30  And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat.

30:31  My harp also has been turned into mourning, and my song into my weeping.