Jubilee2000 - Job - 30

30:1  But now [those that are] younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.

30:2  For, unto what [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom time was lost?

30:3  For want and famine [they walked] alone; fleeing into solitude, to the dark place, desolate and waste.

30:4  Who cut up mallows among the bushes and juniper roots [for] their food.

30:5  They were driven forth from among [men] (they cried after them as [after] a thief).

30:6  They dwelt in the clifts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.

30:7  Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

30:8  [They were] sons of fools and men without names; they were lower than the earth.

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

30:10  They abhor me, they distance themselves from me, and do not spare to spit in my face.

30:11  Because [God] has loosed my cord and afflicted me, they have also gone out of control before my face.

30:12  Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

30:13  They cast down my path, they took advantage of my calamity, against them there was no helper.

30:14  They came in as through a wide breach; they were stirred up because of my calamity.

30:15  They have loosed terrors upon me; they fought my will as the wind and my saving health as a cloud that passes.

30:16  And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

30:17  My bones pierce me in the night, and my sinews take no rest.

30:18  By the great force [of my disease] my garment is changed; it binds me about as the collar of my coat.

30:19  He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

30:20  I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me; I present myself, and thou regardest me [not].

30:21  Thou art become cruel to me; with the strength of thy hand thou dost hate me.

30:22  Thou didst lift me up and cause me to ride upon the wind, and didst dissolve my being.

30:23  For I know [that] thou dost conduct me unto death and [to] the house appointed for all living.

30:24  But he will not stretch out [his] hand against the grave; do those who are buried cry out when he destroys them?

30:25  Did I not weep for the one that was in trouble? Was [not] my soul grieved for the needy?

30:26  When I expected good, then evil came [unto me]; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

30:27  My bowels boil and do not rest; the days of affliction came upon me.

30:28  I went about darkened, but not by the sun; I stood up and cried out in the congregation.

30:29  I have become a brother to dragons and a companion to owls.

30:30  My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

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