#### Job 30

Verses : {1} {2} {3} {4} {5} {6} {7} {8} {9} {10} {11} {12} {13} {14} {15} {16} {17} {18} {19} {20} {21} {22} {23} {24} {25} {26} {27} {28} {29} {30} {31}

^ Jb 30.1: But now [they that are] younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
^ Jb 30.2: Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished?
^ Jb 30.3: For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
^ Jb 30.4: Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.
^ Jb 30.5: They were driven forth from among [men], (they cried after them as [after] a thief;)
^ Jb 30.6: To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.
^ Jb 30.7: Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
^ Jb 30.8: [They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
^ Jb 30.9: And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
^ Jb 30.10: They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
^ Jb 30.11: Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
^ Jb 30.12: Upon [my] right [hand] rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
^ Jb 30.13: They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
^ Jb 30.14: They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters]: in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me].
^ Jb 30.15: Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
^ Jb 30.16: And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
^ Jb 30.17: My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
^ Jb 30.18: By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
^ Jb 30.19: He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
^ Jb 30.20: I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me [not].
^ Jb 30.21: Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
^ Jb 30.22: Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it], and dissolvest my substance.
^ Jb 30.23: For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.
^ Jb 30.24: Howbeit he will not stretch out [his] hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
^ Jb 30.25: Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was [not] my soul grieved for the poor?
^ Jb 30.26: When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me]: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
^ Jb 30.27: My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
^ Jb 30.28: I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation.
^ Jb 30.29: I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
^ Jb 30.30: My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
^ Jb 30.31: My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.