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Job 30 :: Christian Standard Bible (CSB)

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But now they mock me,

men younger than I am,

whose fathers I would have refused to put

with my sheep dogs.

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What use to me was the strength of their hands?

Their vigor had left them.

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Emaciated from poverty and hunger,

they gnawed the dry land,

the desolate wasteland by night.

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They plucked mallow[fn] among the shrubs,

and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

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They were banished from human society;

people shouted at them as if they were thieves.

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They are living on the slopes of the wadis,

among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

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They bray among the shrubs;

they huddle beneath the thistles.

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Foolish men, without even a name.

They were forced to leave the land.

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Now I am mocked by their songs;

I have become an object of scorn to them.

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They despise me and keep their distance from me;

they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

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Because God has loosened my[fn] bowstring and oppressed me,

they have cast off restraint in my presence.

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The rabble[fn] rise up at my right;

they trap[fn] my feet

and construct their siege ramp[fn] against me.

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They tear up my path;

they contribute to my destruction,

without anyone to help them.

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They advance as through a gaping breach;

they keep rolling in through the ruins.

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Terrors are turned loose against me;

they chase my dignity away like the wind,

and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.

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Now my life is poured out before me,

and days of suffering have seized me.

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Night pierces my bones,

but my gnawing pains never rest.

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My clothing is distorted with great force;

he chokes me by the neck of my garment.[fn]

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He throws me into the mud,

and I have become like dust and ashes.

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I cry out to you for help, but you do not answer me;

when I stand up, you merely look at me.

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You have turned against me with cruelty;

you harass me with your strong hand.

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You lift me up on the wind and make me ride it;

you scatter me in the storm.

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Yes, I know that you will lead me to death —

the place appointed for all who live.

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Yet no one would stretch out his hand

against a ruined person[fn]

when he cries out to him for help

because of his distress.

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Have I not wept for those who have fallen on hard times?

Has my soul not grieved for the needy?

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But when I hoped for good, evil came;

when I looked for light, darkness came.

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I am churning within[fn] and cannot rest;

days of suffering confront me.

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I walk about blackened, but not by the sun.[fn]

I stood in the assembly and cried out for help.

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I have become a brother to jackals

and a companion of ostriches.

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My skin blackens and flakes off,[fn]

and my bones burn with fever.

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My lyre is used for mourning

and my flute for the sound of weeping.

See the CSB Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
CSB Footnotes
Or saltwort
Alt Hb tradition, LXX, Vg read his
Hb obscure
Lit stretch out
Lit and raise up their destructive paths
Hb obscure
Lit a heap of ruins
Lit My bowels boil
Or walk in sunless gloom
Lit blackens away from me
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Job Chapter 30 — Additional Translations:

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