Geneva1599 - Job - 30

30:1  Bvt now they that are yonger then I, mocke me: yea, they whose fathers I haue refused to set with the dogges of my flockes.

30:2  For whereto shoulde the strength of their handes haue serued mee, seeing age perished in them?

30:3  For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.

30:4  They cut vp nettels by the bushes, and the iuniper rootes was their meate.

30:5  They were chased forth from among men: they shouted at them, as at a theefe.

30:6  Therfore they dwelt in the clefts of riuers, in the holes of the earth and rockes.

30:7  They roared among the bushes, and vnder the thistles they gathered themselues.

30:8  They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth.

30:9  And now am I their song, and I am their talke.

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

30:11  Because that God hath loosed my corde and humbled mee, they haue loosed the bridle before me.

30:12  The youth rise vp at my right hand: they haue pusht my feete, and haue trode on me as on the paths of their destruction.

30:13  They haue destroyed my paths: they tooke pleasure at my calamitie, they had none helpe.

30:14  They came as a great breach of waters, and vnder this calamitie they come on heapes.

30:15  Feare is turned vpon mee: and they pursue my soule as the winde, and mine health passeth away as a cloude.

30:16  Therefore my soule is nowe powred out vpon me, and the dayes of affliction haue taken holde on me.

30:17  It pearceth my bones in the night, and my sinewes take no rest.

30:18  For the great vehemencie is my garment changed, which compasseth me about as the colar of my coate.

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

30:20  Whe I cry vnto thee, thou doest not heare me, neither regardest me, when I stand vp.

30:21  Thou turnest thy selfe cruelly against me, and art enemie vnto mee with the strength of thine hand.

30:22  Thou takest me vp and causest mee to ride vpon the winde, and makest my strength to faile.

30:23  Surely I knowe that thou wilt bring mee to death, and to the house appoynted for all the liuing.

30:24  Doubtles none can stretch his hand vnto the graue, though they cry in his destruction.

30:25  Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore?

30:26  Yet when I looked for good, euill came vnto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkenesse.

30:27  My bowels did boyle without rest: for the dayes of affliction are come vpon me.

30:28  I went mourning without sunne: I stood vp in the congregation and cryed.

30:29  I am a brother to the dragons, and a companion to the ostriches.

30:30  My skinne is blacke vpon me, and my bones are burnt with heate.

30:31  Therefore mine harpe is turned to mourning, and mine organs into the voyce of them that weepe.