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Job 30 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:1

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:1 - “But now they laugh at me,
men who are younger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
to set with the dogs of my flock.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:2

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:2 - What could I gain from the strength of their hands,
men whose vigor is gone?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:3

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:3 - Through want and hard hunger
they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation;

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:4

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:4 - they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes,
and the roots of the broom tree for their food.[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:5

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:5 - They are driven out from human company;
they shout after them as after a thief.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:6

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:6 - In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell,
in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:7 - Among the bushes they bray;
under the nettles they huddle together.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:8

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:8 - A senseless, a nameless brood,
they have been whipped out of the land.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:9

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:9 - “And now I have become their song;
I am a byword to them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:10

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:10 - They abhor me; they keep aloof from me;
they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:11

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:11 - Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me,
they have cast off restraint[fn] in my presence.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:12

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:12 - On my right hand the rabble rise;
they push away my feet;
they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:13

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:13 - They break up my path;
they promote my calamity;
they need no one to help them.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:14

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:14 - As through a wide breach they come;
amid the crash they roll on.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:15

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:15 - Terrors are turned upon me;
my honor is pursued as by the wind,
and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:16

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:16 - “And now my soul is poured out within me;
days of affliction have taken hold of me.

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Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:17 - The night racks my bones,
and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:18

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:18 - With great force my garment is disfigured;
it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:19

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:19 - God[fn] has cast me into the mire,
and I have become like dust and ashes.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:20

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:20 - I cry to you for help and you do not answer me;
I stand, and you only look at me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:21

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:21 - You have turned cruel to me;
with the might of your hand you persecute me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:22

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:22 - You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it,
and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:23

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:23 - For I know that you will bring me to death
and to the house appointed for all living.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:24

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:24 - “Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand,
and in his disaster cry for help?[fn]

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:25

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:25 - Did not I weep for him whose day was hard?
Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:26

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:26 - But when I hoped for good, evil came,
and when I waited for light, darkness came.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:27

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:27 - My inward parts are in turmoil and never still;
days of affliction come to meet me.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:28

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:28 - I go about darkened, but not by the sun;
I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:29

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:29 - I am a brother of jackals
and a companion of ostriches.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:30

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:30 - My skin turns black and falls from me,
and my bones burn with heat.

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Unchecked Copy Box Job 30:31

Unchecked Copy BoxJob 30:31 - My lyre is turned to mourning,
and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.
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Hebrew the bridle
Hebrew He
The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
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Job Chapter 30 — Additional Translations:

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