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<p class="indent2">They shout against them as <i>against</i> a thief, <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So that they dwell in the slopes of the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>valleys, <p class="indent2">In holes of the dust and of the rocks. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Among the bushes they <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>cry out; <p class="indent2">Under the nettles they are gathered together. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Wicked fools, even <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>those without a name, <p class="indent2">They were scourged from the land. <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“And now I have become their <i>mocking</i> song; <p class="indent2">I have even become a <i>taunting</i> word to them. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They abhor me <i>and</i> keep a distance from me, <p class="indent2">And they do not <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>hold back from spitting at my face. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Because <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>He has loosed <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>His <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>bowstring and afflicted me, <p class="indent2">They have thrust aside <i>their</i> bridle before me. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>On the right hand their <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>brood arises; <p class="indent2">They thrust aside my feet and build up against me their ways to disaster. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They break up my path; <p class="indent2">They profit <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>from my destruction; <p class="indent2">They have no helper. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>As <i>through</i> a wide breach they come, <p class="indent2"><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>Amid the storm they roll on. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Terrors are turned against me; <p class="indent2">They pursue my nobility as the wind, <p class="indent2">And my <i>hope for</i> salvation has passed away like a cloud. <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“And now my soul is poured out <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>within me; <p class="indent2">Days of affliction have seized me. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>At night it pierces my bones <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>within me, <p class="indent2">And my gnawing <i>pains</i> take no rest. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>By a great force my garment is distorted; <p class="indent2">It seizes me about as the collar of my tunic. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He has cast me into the mire, <p class="indent2">And I have become like dust and ashes. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me; <p class="indent2">I stand up, and You carefully consider <i>how to be</i> against me. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>You have <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>become cruel to me; <p class="indent2">With the might of Your hand You hunted me down. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You lift me up to the wind <i>and</i> cause me to ride; <p class="indent2">And You melt me away in a storm. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For I know that You will bring me to death <p class="indent2">And to the house of meeting for all living. <p class="reg"><p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out <i>his</i> hand, <p class="indent2">Or, in his upheaval, is there a cry for help because of them? <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Have I not wept for the <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>one whose life is hard? <p class="indent2">Was not my soul grieved for the needy? <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>When I hoped for good, then evil came; <p class="indent2">When I waited for light, then thick darkness came. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>I am boiling within and cannot be silent; <p class="indent2">Days of affliction confront me. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I go about darkened <i>but</i> not by the sun; <p class="indent2">I stand up in the assembly <i>and</i> cry out for help. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I have become a brother to jackals <p class="indent2">And a companion of ostriches. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>My skin turns black <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>on me, <p class="indent2">And my bones burn with <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>fever. <p class="indent1"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Therefore my harp <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[†]</a></span>is turned to mourning, <p class="indent2">And my flute to the sound of those who weep.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="fnverse">4</span> Plant of the salt marshes<br><span class="fnverse">6</span> Or <i>wadis</i><br><span class="fnverse">7</span> Or <i>bray</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Lit <i>Sons of fools</i><br><span class="fnverse">8</span> Lit <i>sons</i><br><span class="fnverse">10</span> Lit <i>withhold spit from my face</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Or <i>they</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Some mss <i>my</i><br><span class="fnverse">11</span> Or <i>cord</i><br><span class="fnverse">12</span> Possibly <i>sprout</i>, <i>offspring</i><br><span class="fnverse">13</span> Lit <i>for</i><br><span class="fnverse">14</span> Lit <i>Under</i><br><span class="fnverse">16</span> Lit <i>upon</i><br><span class="fnverse">17</span> Lit <i>from upon</i><br><span class="fnverse">21</span> Lit <i>turned to be</i><br><span class="fnverse">25</span> Lit <i>hard of day</i><br><span class="fnverse">27</span> Lit <i>My inward parts are boiling</i><br><span class="fnverse">30</span> Lit <i>from upon</i><br><span class="fnverse">30</span> Lit <i>heat</i><br><span class="fnverse">31</span> Lit <i>becomes</i><br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Legacy Standard Bible Copyright ©2021 by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved. 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