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title: Job 30
slug: kjv/job-30
createdAt: 2024-08-21T01:41:38.965Z
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**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.

**2 **Yea, whereto *might* the strength of their hands *profit* me, in whom old age was perished?

**3 **For want and famine *they were* solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

**4 **Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots *for* their meat.

**5 **They were driven forth from among *men*, (they cried after them as *after* a thief;)

**6 **To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, *in* caves of the earth, and *in* the rocks.

**7 **Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

**8 ***They were* children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

**9 **And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

**10 **They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

**11 **Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

**12 **Upon *my* right *hand* rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

**13 **They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

**14 **They came *upon me* as a wide breaking in *of waters*: in the desolation they rolled themselves *upon me*.

**15 **Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

**16 **And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

**17 **My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

**18 **By the great force *of my disease* is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

**19 **He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

**20 **I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me *not*.

**21 **Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

**22 **Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride *upon it*, and dissolvest my substance.

**23 **For I know *that* thou wilt bring me *to* death, and *to* the house appointed for all living.

**24 **Howbeit he will not stretch out *his* hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

**25 **Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was *not* my soul grieved for the poor?

**26 **When I looked for good, then evil came *unto me*: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

**27 **My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

**28 **I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, *and* I cried in the congregation.

**29 **I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

**30 **My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

**31 **My harp also is *turned* to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.