Job 30 :: New International Version (NIV)

Job 30:1

Job 30:1“But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.

Job 30:2

Job 30:2Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?

Job 30:3

Job 30:3Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed[fn] the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.

Job 30:4

Job 30:4In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food[fn] was the root of the broom bush.

Job 30:5

Job 30:5They were banished from human society, shouted at as if they were thieves.

Job 30:6

Job 30:6They were forced to live in the dry stream beds, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

Job 30:7

Job 30:7They brayed among the bushes and huddled in the undergrowth.

Job 30:8

Job 30:8A base and nameless brood, they were driven out of the land.

Job 30:9

Job 30:9“And now those young men mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

Job 30:10

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

Job 30:11

Job 30:11Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they throw off restraint in my presence.

Job 30:12

Job 30:12On my right the tribe[fn] attacks; they lay snares for my feet, they build their siege ramps against me.

Job 30:13

Job 30:13They break up my road; they succeed in destroying me. ‘No one can help him,’ they say.

Job 30:14

Job 30:14They advance as through a gaping breach; amid the ruins they come rolling in.

Job 30:15

Job 30:15Terrors overwhelm me; my dignity is driven away as by the wind, my safety vanishes like a cloud.

Job 30:16

Job 30:16“And now my life ebbs away; days of suffering grip me.

Job 30:17

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

Job 30:18

Job 30:18In his great power God becomes like clothing to me[fn]; he binds me like the neck of my garment.

Job 30:19

Job 30:19He throws me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.

Job 30:20

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

Job 30:21

Job 30:21You turn on me ruthlessly; with the might of your hand you attack me.

Job 30:22

Job 30:22You snatch me up and drive me before the wind; you toss me about in the storm.

Job 30:23

Job 30:23I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

Job 30:24

Job 30:24“Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.

Job 30:25

Job 30:25Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor?

Job 30:26

Job 30:26Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.

Job 30:27

Job 30:27The churning inside me never stops; days of suffering confront me.

Job 30:28

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

Job 30:29

Job 30:29I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of owls.

Job 30:30

Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels; my body burns with fever.

Job 30:31

Job 30:31My lyre is tuned to mourning, and my pipe to the sound of wailing.

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NIV Footnotes

(30:3)

Or gnawed

(30:4)

Or fuel

(30:12)

The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.

(30:18)

Hebrew; Septuagint power he grasps my clothing

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