ASV_Strong : Job 30
1. But now they that are younger[H6810] than I have me in derision[H7832], Whose fathers[H1] I disdained[H3988] to set[H7896] with the dogs[H3611] of my flock[H6629].
2. Yea[H3581], the strength of their hands[H3027], whereto[H4100] should it profit me[H3624]? Men in whom ripe age is perished[H6].
3. They are gaunt[H1565] with want[H2639] and famine[H3720]; They gnaw[H6207] the dry ground[H6723], in the gloom[H570] of wasteness[H4875] and desolation[H7722].
4. They pluck[H6998] salt-wort[H4408] by the bushes[H7880]; And the roots[H8328] of the broom[H7574] are their food[H3899].
5. They are driven forth[H1644] from the midst[H1460] of men[H7321]; They cry after them as after a thief[H1590];
6. So that they dwell[H7931] in frightful[H6178] valleys[H5158], In holes[H2356] of the earth[H6083] and of the rocks[H3710].
7. Among the bushes[H7880] they bray[H5101]; Under the nettles[H2738] they are gathered together[H5596].
8. They are children[H1121] of fools[H5036], yea[H1121], children of base men[H8034]; They were scourged[H5217] out of the land[H776].
9. And now I am become their song[H5058], Yea[H4405], I am a byword unto them.
10. They abhor[H8581] me[H7368], they stand aloof from me[H2820], And spare not to spit[H7536] in my face[H6440].
11. For he hath loosed[H6605] his cord[H3499], and afflicted[H6031] me[H7971]; And they have cast off the bridle[H7448] before me[H6440].
12. Upon my right[H3225] hand rise[H6965] the rabble[H6526]; They thrust aside[H7971] my feet[H7272], And they cast up[H5549] against me their ways[H734] of destruction[H343].
13. They mar[H5420] my path[H5410], They set forward[H3276] my calamity[H1942], Even men that have no helper[H5826].
14. As through a wide[H7342] breach[H6556] they come[H857]: In the midst[H8478] of the ruin[H7722] they roll themselves upon me[H1556].
15. Terrors[H1091] are turned[H2015] upon me[H7291]; They chase mine honor[H5082] as the wind[H7307]; And my welfare[H3444] is passed away[H5674] as a cloud[H5645].
16. And now my soul[H5315] is poured out[H8210] within me[H3117]; Days of affliction[H6040] have taken hold upon me[H270].
17. In the night season[H3915] my bones[H6106] are pierced[H5365] in me[H6207], And the pains that gnaw me take no rest[H7901].
18. By God[H7230]'s great force[H3581] is my garment[H3830] disfigured[H2664]; It bindeth me about[H247] as the collar[H6310] of my coat[H3801].
19. He hath cast[H3384] me into the mire[H2563], And I am become like[H4911] dust[H6083] and ashes[H665].
20. I cry[H7768] unto thee[H6030], and thou dost not answer me[H5975]: I stand up, and thou gazest at me[H995].
21. Thou art turned[H2015] to be cruel[H393] to me[H6108]; With the might of thy hand[H3027] thou persecutest me[H7852].
22. Thou liftest me up[H5375] to the wind[H7307], thou causest me to ride[H7392] upon it[H4127]; And thou dissolvest me in the storm[H8454].
23. For I know[H3045] that thou wilt bring[H7725] me to death[H4194], And to the house[H1004] appointed[H4150] for all living[H2416].
24. Howbeit doth not one stretch out[H7971] the hand[H3027] in his fall[H1164]? Or in his calamity[H6365] therefore cry for help[H7769]?
25. Did not I weep[H1058] for him that was in trouble[H7186]? Was not my soul[H5315] grieved[H5701] for the needy[H34]?
26. When I looked[H6960] for good[H2896], then evil[H7451] came[H935]; And when I waited[H3176] for light[H216], there came[H935] darkness[H652].
27. My heart[H4578] is troubled[H7570], and resteth[H1826] not[H3117]; Days of affliction[H6040] are come upon me[H6923].
28. I go[H1980] mourning[H6937] without the sun[H2535]: I stand up[H6965] in the assembly[H6951], and cry for help[H7768].
29. I am a brother[H251] to jackals[H8577], And a companion[H7453] to ostriches[H1323].
30. My skin[H5785] is black[H7835], and falleth from me[H6106], And my bones are burned[H2787] with heat[H2721].
31. Therefore is my harp[H3658] turned to mourning[H60], And my pipe[H5748] into the voice[H6963] of them that weep[H1058].
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