“But now, they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose father I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.”
Job 30
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1"But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.
“But now they that are younger than I had me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.”
“But now they are younger than I, have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.”
2What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
“Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me in whom old age was perished.”
“Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished.”
3Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
“from want and famine, they are gaunt. They gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation.”
4They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
“who cut up mallows by the bushes and juniper roots for their meat.”
5They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,
“They were driven forth from among men. They cried after them as after a thief”
6so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
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7They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.
“Among the bushes they brayed under the nettles that were gathered together.”
8A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.
“They were children of fools. Yea, children of base men. They were viler than the earth.”
9And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
“And now I am their song. Yea, I am their byword.”
10They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
“They abhor me. They flee far from me. They spare not to spit in my face.”
“they abhor me, they flee far from me, and they spare not to spit on my face.”
11Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.
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12The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.
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13They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.
“They mar my path. They set forward my calamity. They have no helper.”
14They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.
“They came upon me as a white breaking in of waters. In the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.”
15Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
“Terrors are turned upon me. They pursue my soul as the wind and my welfare passes away as a cloud.”
16And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.
“And now my soul is poured out upon me and the days of my affliction have taken hold upon me.”
17Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
“My bones are pierced in me in the night season and my sinews take no rest.”
18With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.
“By the great force of my disease is my garment changed. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.”
19He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
“He has cast me into the mire and I have become like dust and ashes.”
20I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.
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21You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.
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22You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.
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23Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
“For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.”
24Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
“He will not stretch out his hand to the grave though they cry in his destruction.”
25Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
“Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?”
“Did not I weep. For him that was in trouble. Was not my soul grieved. For the poor.”
26But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
“When I looked for good, then evil came unto me. And when I waited for light, there came darkness.”
“When I expected good then evil came when I waited for light. Then came darkness.”
“when I looked for good, then evil came to me. And when I waited for light, there came darkness.”
27I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.
“My bowels boiled and rested not. The days of affliction prevented me.”
28I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
“I went mourning without the sun. I stood up and cried in the congregation.”
29I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
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30My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
“My skin is black upon me and my bones are burned with heat.”
“My skin is black upon me and my bones are burned with heat.”
31My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.
“My harp also is turned to mourning and my organ into the voice of them that”