Job 30
1 And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.
But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:
2 Also — the power of their hands, why [is it] to me? On them hath old age perished.
The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.
3 With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,
Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.
4 Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots [is] their food.
And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.
5 From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),
Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.
6 In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts.
They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel.
7 Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.
They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted it delightful to be under the briers.
8 Sons of folly — even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.
The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.
9 And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.
Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.
10 They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.
They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face.
11 Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.
For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath put a bridle into my mouth.
12 On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.
At the right hand of my rising, my calamities forthwith arose: they have overthrown my feet, and have overwhelmed me with their paths as with waves.
13 They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, 'He hath no helper.'
They have destroyed my ways, they have lain in wait against me, and they have prevailed, and there was none to help.
14 As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.
They have rushed in upon me, as when a wall is broken, and a gate opened, and have rolled themselves down to my miseries.
15 He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.
I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.
16 And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction.
And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me.
17 At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.
In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.
18 By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me.
With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat.
19 Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.
20 I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me.
I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.
21 Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppressest me.
Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.
22 Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest — Thou levellest me.
Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me.
23 For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And [to] the house appointed for all living.
I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.
24 Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.
But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.
25 Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.
I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.
26 When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.
I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.
27 My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.
My inner parts have boiled without any rest, the days of affliction have prevented me.
28 Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry.
I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd.
29 A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.
I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.
30 My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,
My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.
31 And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.
My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.
