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Job 30  Legacy Standard Bible

30 “But now those younger than I (A)laugh at me,
Whose fathers I rejected even to put with the dogs of my flock.
2 Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me?
Vigor had perished from them.
3 From want and famine they are gaunt,
Who gnaw the dry ground by night in destruction and desolation,
4 Who pluck [a]mallow by the bushes,
And whose food is the root of the broom tree.
5 They are driven from the community;
They shout against them as against a thief,
6 So that they dwell in the slopes of the [b]valleys,
In holes of the dust and of the rocks.
7 Among the bushes they [c]cry out;
Under the nettles they are gathered together.
8 [d]Wicked fools, even [e]those without a name,
They were scourged from the land.

9 “And now I have become their mocking (B)song;
I have even become a (C)taunting word to them.
10 They abhor me and keep a distance from me,
And they do not [f]hold back from (D)spitting at my face.
11 Because [g]He has loosed [h]His [i]bowstring and (E)afflicted me,
They have thrust aside (F)their bridle before me.
12 On the right hand their [j]brood arises;
They (G)thrust aside my feet (H)and build up against me their ways to disaster.
13 They (I)break up my path;
They profit [k]from my destruction;
They have no helper.
14 As through a wide breach they come,
[l]Amid the storm they roll on.
15 (J)Terrors are turned against me;
They pursue my nobility as the wind,
And my hope for salvation has passed away (K)like a cloud.

16 “And now (L)my soul is poured out [m]within me;
Days of affliction have seized me.
17 At night it pierces (M)my bones [n]within me,
And my gnawing pains take no rest.
18 By a great force my garment is (N)distorted;
It seizes me about as the collar of my tunic.
19 He has cast me into the (O)mire,
And I have become like dust and ashes.
20 I (P)cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me;
I stand up, and You carefully consider how to be against me.
21 You have [o]become cruel to me;
With the might of Your hand You (Q)hunted me down.
22 You (R)lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride;
And You melt me away in a storm.
23 For I know that You (S)will bring me to death
And to the (T)house of meeting for all living.

24 “Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand,
Or, in his upheaval, is there a (U)cry for help because of them?
25 Have I not (V)wept for the [p]one whose life is hard?
Was not my soul grieved for (W)the needy?
26 When I (X)hoped for good, then evil came;
When I waited for light, (Y)then thick darkness came.
27 [q]I am boiling (Z)within and cannot be silent;
Days of affliction confront me.
28 I go about (AA)darkened but not by the sun;
I stand up in the assembly and (AB)cry out for help.
29 I have become a brother to (AC)jackals
And a companion of ostriches.
30 My (AD)skin turns black [r]on me,
And my (AE)bones burn with [s]fever.
31 Therefore my (AF)harp [t]is turned to mourning,
And my flute to the sound of those who weep.

Footnotes

  1. Job 30:4 Plant of the salt marshes
  2. Job 30:6 Or wadis
  3. Job 30:7 Or bray
  4. Job 30:8 Lit Sons of fools
  5. Job 30:8 Lit sons
  6. Job 30:10 Lit withhold spit from my face
  7. Job 30:11 Or they
  8. Job 30:11 Some mss my
  9. Job 30:11 Or cord
  10. Job 30:12 Possibly sprout, offspring
  11. Job 30:13 Lit for
  12. Job 30:14 Lit Under
  13. Job 30:16 Lit upon
  14. Job 30:17 Lit from upon
  15. Job 30:21 Lit turned to be
  16. Job 30:25 Lit hard of day
  17. Job 30:27 Lit My inward parts are boiling
  18. Job 30:30 Lit from upon
  19. Job 30:30 Lit heat
  20. Job 30:31 Lit becomes

Cross references

  1. Job 30:1 : Job 12:4
  2. Job 30:9 : Job 12:4
  3. Job 30:9 : Job 17:6; Ps 69:11; Lam 3:14, 63
  4. Job 30:10 : Num 12:14; Deut 25:9; Job 17:6; Is 50:6; Matt 26:67
  5. Job 30:11 : Ruth 1:21; Ps 88:7
  6. Job 30:11 : Ps 32:9
  7. Job 30:12 : Ps 140:4, 5
  8. Job 30:12 : Job 19:12
  9. Job 30:13 : Is 3:12
  10. Job 30:15 : Job 3:25; 31:23; Ps 55:3-5
  11. Job 30:15 : Job 7:9; Hos 13:3
  12. Job 30:16 : 1 Sam 1:15; Job 3:24; Ps 22:14; 42:4; Is 53:12
  13. Job 30:17 : Job 30:30
  14. Job 30:18 : Job 2:7
  15. Job 30:19 : Ps 69:2, 14
  16. Job 30:20 : Job 19:7
  17. Job 30:21 : Job 10:3; 16:9, 14; 19:6, 22
  18. Job 30:22 : Job 9:17; 27:21
  19. Job 30:23 : Job 9:22; 10:8
  20. Job 30:23 : Job 3:19; Eccl 12:5
  21. Job 30:24 : Job 19:7
  22. Job 30:25 : Ps 35:13, 14; Rom 12:15
  23. Job 30:25 : Job 24:4
  24. Job 30:26 : Job 3:25, 26; Jer 8:15
  25. Job 30:26 : Job 19:8
  26. Job 30:27 : Lam 2:11
  27. Job 30:28 : Job 30:31; Ps 38:6; 42:9; 43:2
  28. Job 30:28 : Job 19:7
  29. Job 30:29 : Ps 44:19; Mic 1:8
  30. Job 30:30 : Job 2:7
  31. Job 30:30 : Ps 102:3
  32. Job 30:31 : Is 24:8
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