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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "//www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="//www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>Job 30 CEV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/job/30.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" 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31">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading">Contemporary English Version</div><div class="chap"><h5 class="sp">Job Continues</h5><h3 class="s1">Young People Now Insult Me</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_1"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.1" class="v18_30_1">1</span>Young people now insult me,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_1">although their fathers</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_1">would have been a disgrace</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_1">to my sheep dogs.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_2"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.2" class="v18_30_2">2</span>And those who insult me</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_2">are helpless themselves.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_3"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.3" class="v18_30_3">3</span>They must claw the desert sand</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_3">in the dark for something</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_3">to satisfy their hunger.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.30.3!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_4"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.4" class="v18_30_4">4</span>They gather tasteless shrubs</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_4">for food and firewood,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_5"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.5" class="v18_30_5">5</span>and they are run out of towns,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_5">as though they were thieves.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_6"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.6" class="v18_30_6">6</span>Their only homes are ditches</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_6">or holes between rocks,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_7"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.7" class="v18_30_7">7</span>where they bray like donkeys</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_7">gathering around shrubs.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_8"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.8" class="v18_30_8">8</span>And like senseless donkeys</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_8">they are chased away.</span></p><h3 class="s1">Those Worthless Nobodies</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_9"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.9" class="v18_30_9">9</span>Those worthless nobodies</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_9">make up jokes and songs</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_9">to disgrace me.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_10"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.10" class="v18_30_10">10</span>They are hateful</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_10">and keep their distance,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_10">even while spitting</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_10">in my direction.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_11"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.11" class="v18_30_11">11</span>God has destroyed me,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_11">and so they don't care</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_11">what they do.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.30.11!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_12"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.12" class="v18_30_12">12</span>Their attacks never stop,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_12">though I am defenseless,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_12">and my feet are trapped.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.30.12!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_13"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.13" class="v18_30_13">13</span>Without any help,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_13">they prevent my escape,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_13">destroying me completely<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.30.13!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_14"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.14" class="v18_30_14">14</span>and leaving me crushed.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_15"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.15" class="v18_30_15">15</span>Terror has me surrounded;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_15">my reputation and my riches</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_15">have vanished like a cloud.</span></p><h3 class="s1">I Am Sick at Heart</h3><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_16"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.16" class="v18_30_16">16</span>I am sick at heart!</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_16">Pain has taken its toll.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_17"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.17" class="v18_30_17">17</span>Night chews on my bones,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_17">causing endless torment,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_18"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.18" class="v18_30_18">18</span>and God has shrunk my skin,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_18">choking me to death.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.30.18!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_19"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.19" class="v18_30_19">19</span>I have been thrown in the dirt</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_19">and now am dirt myself.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_20"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.20" class="v18_30_20">20</span>I beg God for help,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_20">but there is no answer;</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_20">and when I stand up,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_20">he simply stares.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_21"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.21" class="v18_30_21">21</span>God has turned brutal,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_22"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.22" class="v18_30_22">22</span>stirring up a windstorm</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_22">to toss me about.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_23"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.23" class="v18_30_23">23</span>Soon he will send me home</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_23">to the world of the dead,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_23">where we all must go.</span></p><p class="b"></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_24"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.24" class="v18_30_24">24</span>No one refuses help to others,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_24">when disaster strikes.<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.30.24!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> </span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_25"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.25" class="v18_30_25">25</span>I mourned for the poor</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_25">and those who suffered.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_26"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.26" class="v18_30_26">26</span>But when I beg for relief</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_26">and light,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_26">all I receive are disaster</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_26">and darkness.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_27"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.27" class="v18_30_27">27</span>My stomach is tied in knots;</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_27">pain is my daily companion.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_28"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.28" class="v18_30_28">28</span>My days are dark and gloomy</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_28">and in the city council</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_28">I stand and cry out,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_29"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.29" class="v18_30_29">29</span>making mournful sounds</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_29">like jackals<a href="#fn" id="link_Job.30.29!f.1" class="notelink f-link"><span>+</span></a> and owls.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_30"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.30" class="v18_30_30">30</span>My skin is so parched,</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_30">that it peels right off,</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_30">and my bones are burning.</span></p><p class="q1"><span class="v18_30_31"><span class="reftext" id="Job.30.31" class="v18_30_31">31</span>My only songs are sorrow</span></p><p class="q2"><span class="v18_30_31">and sadness.</span></p> <a name="fn"></a><br /><br /><br /><b>Footnotes:<br /><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">30.3 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">hunger: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 3.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">30.11 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">God … do: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Or “They have destroyed me, and so they don't care what else they do.”</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">30.12 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">trapped: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 12.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">30.13 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">destroying … completely: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">30.18 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">death: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 18.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">30.24 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">strikes: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">One possible meaning for the difficult Hebrew text of verse 24.</char></note><br /><note caller="+" style="f"><char style="fr" closed="false">30.29 </char><char style="fq" closed="false">jackals: </char><char style="ft" closed="false">Desert animals related to wolves, but smaller.</char></note></div></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div align="center"><p><span style="font-size:11pt;">Contemporary English Version, Second Edition (CEV®)</span></p> <p><span style="font-size:11pt;">© 2006 American Bible Society. 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