Job 30

30But now they that are ^†younger than I ^ahave me in derision,

^bWhose fathers I would have disdained

To have set with the dogs of my flock.

²Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands ^cprofit me,

In whom ^dold age was perished?

³For want and ^efamine they were ^||solitary;

^fFleeing into the ^gwilderness

^†In former time ^hdesolate and waste.

⁴Who cut up mallows by the bushes,

And juniper roots for their meat.

⁵ⁱThey were driven forth from among men,

(They cried after them as after a thief;)

⁶To dwell in the clifts of the valleys,

In ^†caves of the earth, and in the ^krocks.

^7lAmong the bushes they ^mbrayed;

Under the ⁿnettles they were gathered together.

⁸They were children of ^ofools, yea, children of ^†base men:

They were viler than the earth.

^9pAnd now am I their ^qsong,

Yea, ^rI am their byword.

¹⁰They ^sabhor me, they flee far from me,

^†And spare not ^tto spit in my face.

¹¹Because he hath ^uloosed my cord, and ^xafflicted me,

They have also let loose the bridle ^ybefore me.

^12zUpon my right hand rise the youth;

They ^apush away my feet,

And they ^braise up against me the ways of their destruction.

¹³They mar my path,

They set forward my ^ccalamity,

They have no helper.

¹⁴They came upon me as a wide ^dbreaking in of waters:

In the ^edesolation they rolled themselves upon me.

^15fTerrors are turned upon me:

They pursue ^†my soul as the wind:

And my welfare passeth away ^gas a cloud.

¹⁶And now ^hmy soul is poured out ⁱupon me;

The days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

¹⁷My bones are pierced in me ^kin the night season:

And my ^lsinews take no rest.

^18mBy the great force of my disease is my garment ⁿchanged:

^oIt bindeth me about as the ^pcollar of my coat.

¹⁹He hath cast me into the mire,

And ^oI am become ^pplike ^qdust and ashes.

²⁰I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me:

I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

²¹Thou art ^†become cruel to me:

With ^†thy strong hand thou ^ropposest thyself against me.

²²Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it,

And ^sdissolvest my ^||substance.

²³For ^tI know that thou wilt bring me to death,

And to the house appointed for ^uall living.

²⁴Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the ^†grave,

Though they ^xcry in his ^ydestruction.

^25zDid not I weep ^†for him that was in trouble?

Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

^26aWhen I looked for good, then evil came unto me:

And when I waited for light, there came ^aadarkness.

²⁷My bowels ^bboiled, and rested not:

The days of affliction ^cprevented me.

^28dI went mourning ^ewithout the sun:

I stood up, and I cried ^fin the congregation.

²⁹I am a brother to ^gdragons,

And a companion to ^||owls.

^30hMy skin is black upon me,

And ⁱmy bones ^kare burned with heat.

³¹My ^lharp also ^mis turned to mourning,

And my ^lorgan into the voice of them that weep.