      | ¶ | But now [they that are] younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. | |
 | Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished? | ||
| For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. | ||
| Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat. | ||
| They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;) | ||
| To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks. | ||
| Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. | ||
| [They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. | ||
| And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. | ||
| They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. | ||
| Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. | ||
| Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. | ||
| They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. | ||
| They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me]. | ||
| Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. | ||
| And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. | ||
| My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. | ||
| By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. | ||
| He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. | ||
| ¶ | I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me [not]. | |
| Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. | ||
| Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it], and dissolvest my substance. | ||
| For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living. | ||
| ¶ | Howbeit he will not stretch out [his] hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. | |
| Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was [not] my soul grieved for the poor? | ||
| When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. | ||
| My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. | ||
| I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation. | ||
| I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. | ||
| My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. | ||
| My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. |
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Job - Chapter 30
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