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.YLT — Job 30:1

2 Also — the power of their hands, why [is it] to me? On them hath old age perished.YLT — Job 30:2

3 With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,YLT — Job 30:3

4 Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots [is] their food.YLT — Job 30:4

5 From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),YLT — Job 30:5

6 In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts.YLT — Job 30:6

7 Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.YLT — Job 30:7

8 Sons of folly — even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.YLT — Job 30:8

9 And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.YLT — Job 30:9

10 They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.YLT — Job 30:10

11 Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.YLT — Job 30:11

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.YLT — Job 30:12

13 They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, ‘He hath no helper.’YLT — Job 30:13

14 As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.YLT — Job 30:14

15 He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.YLT — Job 30:15

16 And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction.YLT — Job 30:16

17 At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.YLT — Job 30:17

18 By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me.YLT — Job 30:18

19 Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.YLT — Job 30:19

20 I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me.YLT — Job 30:20

21 Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppresest me.YLT — Job 30:21

22 Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest — Thou levellest me.YLT — Job 30:22

23 For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And [to] the house appointed for all living.YLT — Job 30:23

24 Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.YLT — Job 30:24

25 Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.YLT — Job 30:25

26 When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.YLT — Job 30:26

27 My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.YLT — Job 30:27

28 Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry.YLT — Job 30:28

29 A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.YLT — Job 30:29

30 My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,YLT — Job 30:30

31 And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.YLT — Job 30:31