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Job

ESV

Chapter 30

¹“But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. ²What good was the strength of their hands to me, men whose vigor is gone? ³Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry ground in the gloom of waste and desolation. ⁴They pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes, and to warm themselves, the roots of the broom plant. ⁵They are driven from among men; people shout after them as after a thief. ⁶In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks. ⁷Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together. ⁸Worthless and nameless men, they have been whipped out of the land. ⁹“And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them. ¹⁰They abhor me; they keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me. ¹¹Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence. ¹²On my right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they cast up against me their ways of destruction. ¹³They break up my path; they profit from my catastrophe; no one restrains them. ¹⁴As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on. ¹⁵Terrors are turned upon me; my dignity is put to flight as by the wind, and my prosperity passes away like a cloud. ¹⁶“And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me. ¹⁷The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest. ¹⁸By great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic. ¹⁹God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. ²⁰I cry to you for help and you do not answer me; I stand, and you only look at me. ²¹You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me. ²²You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it, and you toss me about in the roar of the storm. ²³For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living. ²⁴“Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help? ²⁵Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the poor? ²⁶But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I waited for light, darkness came. ²⁷My inward parts are hot and restless; days of affliction have come upon me. ²⁸I go about in sunless gloom; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help. ²⁹I am a brother to jackals and a companion to ostriches. ³⁰My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat. ³¹My harp is turned to mourning, and my flute to the voice of those who weep.