Job 30 :: King James Version (KJV)

Job's Present State Is Humiliating

Job 30:1But 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.

Job 30:2

Job 30:2Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

Job 30:3

Job 30:3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

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Job 30:4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

Job 30:5

Job 30:5They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

Job 30:6

Job 30:6To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

Job 30:7

Job 30:7Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

Job 30:8

Job 30:8They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

Job 30:9

Job 30:9And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

Job 30:10

Job 30:10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

Job 30:11

Job 30:11Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

Job 30:12

Job 30:12Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

Job 30:13

Job 30:13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

Job 30:14

Job 30:14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

Job 30:15

Job 30:15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

Job 30:16

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

Job 30:17

Job 30:17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

Job 30:18

Job 30:18By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

Job 30:19

Job 30:19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

Job 30:20

Job 30:20I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

Job 30:21

Job 30:21Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

Job 30:22

Job 30:22Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

Job 30:23

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

Job 30:24

Job 30:24Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

Job 30:25

Job 30:25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

Job 30:26

Job 30:26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Job 30:27

Job 30:27My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

Job 30:28

Job 30:28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

Job 30:29

Job 30:29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

Job 30:30

Job 30:30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Job 30:31

Job 30:31My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

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Job 30 :: King James Version (KJV)

Job's Present State Is Humiliating

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