Job 30 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Job's Present State Is Humiliating

Job 30:1"But now they make sport of 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 and desolate ground;

Job 30:4

Job 30:4they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes, and to warm themselves the roots of the broom.

Job 30:5

Job 30:5They are driven out from among men; 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 disreputable 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 in my presence.

Job 30:12

Job 30:12On my right hand the rabble rise, they drive me forth, they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

Job 30:13

Job 30:13They break up my path, they promote my calamity; no one restrains 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 violence it seizes my garment; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.

Job 30:19

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

Job 30:20

Job 30:20I cry to thee and thou dost not answer me; I stand, and thou dost not heed me.

Job 30:21

Job 30:21Thou hast turned cruel to me; with the might of thy hand thou dost persecute me.

Job 30:22

Job 30:22Thou liftest me up on the wind, thou makest me ride on it, and thou tossest me about in the roar of the storm.

Job 30:23

Job 30:23Yea, I know that thou wilt 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?

Job 30:25

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

Job 30:26

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

Job 30:27

Job 30:27My heart is in turmoil, and is never still; days of affliction come to meet 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 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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Job 30 :: Revised Standard Version (RSV)

Job's Present State Is Humiliating

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