Job 30 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Job's Present State Is Humiliating

Job 30:1

Job 30:1“But now those younger than I mock me,
Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.

Job 30:2

Job 30:2“Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me?
Vigor had perished from them.

Job 30:3

Job 30:3“From want and famine they are gaunt
Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,

Job 30:4

Job 30:4Who pluck [fn]mallow by the bushes,
And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.

Job 30:5

Job 30:5“They are driven from the community;
They shout against them as against a thief,

Job 30:6

Job 30:6So that they dwell in dreadful [fn]valleys,
In holes of the earth and of the rocks.

Job 30:7

Job 30:7“Among the bushes they [fn]cry out;
Under the nettles they are gathered together.

Job 30:8

Job 30:8“[fn]Fools, even [fn]those without a name,
They were scourged from the land.

Job 30:9

Job 30:9“And now I have become their [fn]taunt,
I have even become a byword to them.

Job 30:10

Job 30:10“They abhor me and stand aloof from me,
And they do not [fn]refrain from spitting at my face.

Job 30:11

Job 30:11“Because [fn]He has loosed [fn]His [fn]bowstring and afflicted me,
They have cast off the bridle before me.

Job 30:12

Job 30:12“On the right hand their [fn]brood arises;
They thrust aside my feet and build up against me their ways of destruction.

Job 30:13

Job 30:13“They break up my path,
They profit [fn]from my destruction;
No one restrains them.

Job 30:14

Job 30:14“As through a wide breach they come,
[fn]Amid the tempest they roll on.

Job 30:15

Job 30:15“Terrors are turned against me;
They pursue my [fn]honor as the wind,
And my [fn]prosperity has passed away like a cloud.

Job 30:16

Job 30:16“And now my soul is poured out [fn]within me;
Days of affliction have seized me.

Job 30:17

Job 30:17“At night it pierces my bones [fn]within me,
And my gnawing pains take no rest.

Job 30:18

Job 30:18“By a great force my garment is distorted;
It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

Job 30:19

Job 30:19“He has cast me into the mire,
And I have become like dust and ashes.

Job 30:20

Job 30:20“I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me;
I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.

Job 30:21

Job 30:21“You have [fn]become cruel to me;
With the might of Your hand You persecute me.

Job 30:22

Job 30:22“You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride;
And You dissolve me in a storm.

Job 30:23

Job 30:23“For I know that You will bring me to death
And to the house of meeting for all living.

Job 30:24

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

Job 30:25

Job 30:25“Have I not wept for the [fn]one whose life is hard?
Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

Job 30:26

Job 30:26“When I expected good, then evil came;
When I waited for light, then darkness came.

Job 30:27

Job 30:27“[fn]I am seething within and cannot relax;
Days of affliction confront me.

Job 30:28

Job 30:28“I go about [fn]mourning without comfort;
I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.

Job 30:29

Job 30:29“I have become a brother to jackals
And a companion of ostriches.

Job 30:30

Job 30:30“My skin turns black [fn]on me,
And my bones burn with [fn]fever.

Job 30:31

Job 30:31“Therefore my harp [fn]is turned to mourning,
And my flute to the sound of those who weep.

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NASB95 Footnotes

(30:4)

I.e. plant of the salt marshes

(30:6)

Or, wadis

(30:7)

Or, bray

(30:8)

Literally: Sons of fools

(30:8)

Literally: sons

(30:9)

Literally: song

(30:10)

Literally: withhold spit from my face

Or, they

Some mss read my

Or, cord

Possibly sprout or offspring

Literally: for

Literally: Under

Or, nobility

Or, welfare

Literally: upon

Literally: from upon

(30:21)

Literally: turned to be

(30:25)

Literally: hard of day

(30:27)

Literally: My inward parts are boiling

(30:28)

Or, blackened, but not by the heat of the sun

(30:30)

Literally: from upon

(30:30)

Literally: heat

(30:31)

Literally: becomes

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Job 30 :: New American Standard Bible 1995 (NASB95)

Job's Present State Is Humiliating

NASB95 Footnotes

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