Job’s Final Defense Continued

30 “But now those younger than I, as far as days, laugh at me,

whose fathers I rejected for setting with the dogs of my sheep and goats.

2 Moreover, ⌊what use to me is the strength of their hands⌋?a

With them, vigor is destroyed.

3 Through want and through barren hunger

they are gnawing in the dry region in the darkness of desolation and waste.

4 They are picking salt herbs, the leaves of bushes,

and the roots of broom trees to warm themselves.

5 They were driven out from fellow people;

they shout at them as at ab thief,

6 ⌊so that they dwell⌋c

in holes of the ground and in the rocks.

7 They bray among the bushes;

they are gathered under the nettles.

8 ⌊A senseless crowd⌋,d yes, ⌊a disreputable brood⌋,e

they were cast out from the land.