Job 30 :: New English Translation (NET)

Job's Present State Is Humiliating

Job 30:1"But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.

Job 30:2

Job 30:2Moreover, the strength of their hands - what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished;

Job 30:3

Job 30:3gaunt with want and hunger, they would gnaw the parched land, in former time desolate and waste.

Job 30:4

Job 30:4By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.

Job 30:5

Job 30:5They were banished from the community - people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves -

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Job 30:6so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.

Job 30:7

Job 30:7They brayed like animals among the bushes and were huddled together under the nettles.

Job 30:8

Job 30:8Sons of senseless and nameless people, they were driven out of the land with whips.

Job 30:9

Job 30:9"And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.

Job 30:10

Job 30:10They detest me and maintain their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

Job 30:11

Job 30:11Because God has untied my tent cord and afflicted me, people throw off all restraint in my presence.

Job 30:12

Job 30:12On my right the young rabble rise up; they drive me from place to place, and build up siege ramps against me.

Job 30:13

Job 30:13They destroy my path; they succeed in destroying me without anyone assisting them.

Job 30:14

Job 30:14They come in as through a wide breach; amid the crash they come rolling in.

Job 30:15

Job 30:15Terrors are turned loose on me; they drive away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.

Job 30:16

Job 30:16"And now my soul pours itself out within me; days of suffering take hold of me.

Job 30:17

Job 30:17Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.

Job 30:18

Job 30:18With great power God grasps my clothing; he binds me like the collar of my tunic.

Job 30:19

Job 30:19He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.

Job 30:20

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

Job 30:21

Job 30:21You have become cruel to me; with the strength of your hand you attack me.

Job 30:22

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

Job 30:23

Job 30:23I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.

Job 30:24

Job 30:24"Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.

Job 30:25

Job 30:25Have I not wept for the unfortunate? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

Job 30:26

Job 30:26But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.

Job 30:27

Job 30:27My heart is in turmoil unceasingly; the days of my affliction confront me.

Job 30:28

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

Job 30:29

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

Job 30:30

Job 30:30My skin has turned dark on me; my body is hot with fever.

Job 30:31

Job 30:31My harp is used for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.

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Job 30 :: New English Translation (NET)

Job's Present State Is Humiliating

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