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(Job 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.
(Job 30:2) Yea, whereto {might} the strength of their hands {profit} me, in whom old age was perished?
(Job 30:3) For want and famine {they were} solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
(Job 30:4) Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots {for} their meat.
(Job 30:5) They were driven forth from among {men}, (they cried after them as {after} a thief;)
(Job 30:6) To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, {in} caves of the earth, and {in} the rocks.
(Job 30:7) Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
(Job 30:8) {They were} children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
(Job 30:9) And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
(Job 30:10) They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
(Job 30:11) Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
(Job 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.
(Job 30:13) They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
(Job 30:14) They came {upon me} as a wide breaking in {of waters}: in the desolation they rolled themselves {upon me}.
(Job 30:15) Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
(Job 30:16) And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
(Job 30:17) My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
(Job 30:18) By the great force {of my disease} is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
(Job 30:19) He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
(Job 30:20) I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me {not}.
(Job 30:21) Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
(Job 30:22) Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride {upon it}, and dissolvest my substance.
(Job 30:23) For I know {that} thou wilt bring me {to} death, and to the house appointed for all living.
(Job 30:24) Howbeit he will not stretch out {his} hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
(Job 30:25) Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was {not} my soul grieved for the poor?
(Job 30:26) When I looked for good, then evil came {unto me}: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
(Job 30:27) My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
(Job 30:28) I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, {and} I cried in the congregation.
(Job 30:29) I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
(Job 30:30) My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
(Job 30:31) My harp also is {turned} to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
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