Hiob 30

1. ¹And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.
2. ²Also -- the power of their hands, why `is it' to me? On them hath old age perished.
3. ³With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,
4. ⁴Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots `is' their food.
5. ⁵From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),
6. ⁶In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts.
7. ⁷Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.
8. ⁸Sons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.
9. ⁹And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.
10. ¹⁰They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.
11. ¹¹Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.
12. ¹²On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.
13. ¹³They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, `He hath no helper.'
14. ¹⁴As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.
15. ¹⁵He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.
16. ¹⁶And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction.
17. ¹⁷At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.
18. ¹⁸By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me.
19. ¹⁹Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
20. ²⁰I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me.
21. ²¹Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppresest me.
22. ²²Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest -- Thou levellest me.
23. ²³For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And `to' the house appointed for all living.
24. ²⁴Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.
25. ²⁵Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.
26. ²⁶When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.
27. ²⁷My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.
28. ²⁸Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry.
29. ²⁹A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.
30. ³⁰My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,
31. ³¹And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.

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