Job 30 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Job 30:1

Job 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.

Job 30:2

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

Job 30:3

Job 30:3Through want and hard hunger
they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation;

Job 30:4

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

Job 30:5

Job 30:5They are driven out from human company;
they shout after them as after a thief.

Job 30:6

Job 30:6In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell,
in holes of the earth and of the rocks.

Job 30:7

Job 30:7Among the bushes they bray;
under the nettles they huddle together.

Job 30:8

Job 30:8A senseless, a nameless brood,
they have been whipped out of the land.

Job 30:9

Job 30:9“And now I have become their song;
I am a byword to them.

Job 30:10

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

Job 30:11

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

Job 30:12

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

Job 30:13

Job 30:13They break up my path;
they promote my calamity;
they need no one to help them.

Job 30:14

Job 30:14As through a wide breach they come;
amid the crash they roll on.

Job 30:15

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

Job 30:16

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

Job 30:17

Job 30:17The night racks my bones,
and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.

Job 30:18

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

Job 30:19

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

Job 30:20

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

Job 30:21

Job 30:21You have turned cruel to me;
with the might of your hand you persecute me.

Job 30:22

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

Job 30:23

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

Job 30:24

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

Job 30:25

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

Job 30:26

Job 30:26But when I hoped for good, evil came,
and when I waited for light, darkness came.

Job 30:27

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

Job 30:28

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

Job 30:29

Job 30:29I am a brother of jackals
and a companion of ostriches.

Job 30:30

Job 30:30My skin turns black and falls from me,
and my bones burn with heat.

Job 30:31

Job 30:31My lyre is turned to mourning,
and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.

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Or warmth

Hebrew the bridle

Hebrew He

The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

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