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Passage Lookup: Job 30

NASNew American Standard Bible
KJVKing James Version
"But now those who are younger than I mock me, Whose fathers I refused to put with the dogs of my flock.
Job 30:1
But 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.
"Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me? Vigor had perished from them.
Job 30:2
Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
"From poverty and famine they are gaunt, They who gnaw at the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,
Job 30:3
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
Who pluck saltweed by the bushes, And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.
Job 30:4
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
"They are driven from the community; They shout against them as against a thief,
Job 30:5
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
So that they live on the slopes of ravines, In holes in the ground and among the rocks.
Job 30:6
To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
"Among the bushes they cry out; Under the weeds they are gathered together.
Job 30:7
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
"Worthless fellows, even those without a name, They were cast out from the land.
Job 30:8
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
"And now I have become their taunt, And I have become a byword to them.
Job 30:9
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
"They loathe me and stand aloof from me, And they do not refrain from spitting in my face.
Job 30:10
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
"Because He has undone my bowstring and afflicted me, They have cast off the bridle before me.
Job 30:11
Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
"On the right hand their mob arises; They push aside my feet and pile up their ways of destruction against me.
Job 30:12
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
"They break up my path, They promote my destruction; No one restrains them.
Job 30:13
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
"As through a wide gap they come, Amid the storm they roll on.
Job 30:14
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
"Sudden terrors are turned upon me; They chase away my dignity like the wind, And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
Job 30:15
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
"And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of misery have seized me.
Job 30:16
And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
"At night it pierces my bones within me, And my gnawing pains do not rest.
Job 30:17
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
"By a great force my garment is distorted; It ties me up like the collar of my coat.
Job 30:18
By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
"He has thrown me into the mire, And I have become like dust and ashes.
Job 30:19
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
"I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me; I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.
Job 30:20
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
"You have become cruel to me; With the strength of Your hand You persecute me.
Job 30:21
Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
"You lift me up to the wind and make me ride it; And You dissolve me in a storm.
Job 30:22
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
"For I know that You will bring me to death, And to the house of meeting for all living.
Job 30:23
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
"Yet does one in a heap of ruins not reach out with his hand, Or in his disaster does he not cry out for help?
Job 30:24
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
"Have I not wept for the one whose life is hard? Was my soul not grieved for the needy?
Job 30:25
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
"When I expected good, evil came; When I waited for light, darkness came.
Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
"I am seething within and cannot rest; Days of misery confront me.
Job 30:27
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
"I go about mourning without comfort; I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.
Job 30:28
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
"I have become a brother to jackals, And a companion of ostriches.
Job 30:29
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
"My skin turns black on me, And my bones burn with fever.
Job 30:30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
"Therefore my harp is turned to mourning, And my flute to the sound of those who weep.
Job 30:31
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
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