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Job 30:1

& "But now those younger than I mock me, Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.

Job 30:2

& "Indeed, what {good was} the strength of their hands to me? Vigor had perished from them.

Job 30:3

& "From want and famine they are gaunt Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,

Job 30:4

& Who pluck (I.e. plant of the salt marshes) mallow by the bushes, And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.

Job 30:5

& "They are driven from the community; They shout against them as {against} a thief,

Job 30:6

& So that they dwell in dreadful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.

Job 30:7

& "Among the bushes they cry out; Under the nettles they are gathered together.

Job 30:8

& "Fools, even those without a name, They were scourged from the land.

Job 30:9

& "And now I have become their taunt, I have even become a byword to them.

Job 30:10

& "They abhor me {and} stand aloof from me, And they do not refrain from spitting at my face.

Job 30:11

& "Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me, They have cast off the bridle before me.

Job 30:12

& "On the right hand their brood arises; They thrust aside my feet and build up against me their ways of destruction.

Job 30:13

& "They break up my path, They profit from my destruction; No one restrains them.

Job 30:14

& "As {through} a wide breach they come, Amid the tempest they roll on.

Job 30:15

& "Terrors are turned against me; They pursue my honor as the wind, And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.

Job 30:16

& "And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have seized me.

Job 30:17

& "At night it pierces my bones within me, And my gnawing {pains} take no rest.

Job 30:18

& "By a great force my garment is distorted; It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

Job 30:19

& "He has cast me into the mire, And I have become like dust and ashes.

Job 30:20

& "I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me; I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.

Job 30:21

& "You have become cruel to me; With the might of Your hand You persecute me.

Job 30:22

& "You lift me up to the wind {and} cause me to ride; And You dissolve me in a storm.

Job 30:23

& "For I know that You will bring me to death And to the house of meeting for all living.

Job 30:24

& "Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out {his} hand, Or in his disaster therefore cry out for help?

Job 30:25

& "Have I not wept for the one whose life is hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

Job 30:26

& "When I expected good, then evil came; When I waited for light, then darkness came.

Job 30:27

& "I am seething within and cannot relax; Days of affliction confront me.

Job 30:28

& "I go about mourning without comfort; I stand up in the assembly {and} cry out for help.

Job 30:29

& "I have become a brother to jackals And a companion of ostriches.

Job 30:30

& "My skin turns black on me, And my bones burn with fever.

Job 30:31

& "Therefore my harp is turned to mourning, And my flute to the sound of those who weep.

Job 30

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