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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://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 Amplified Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></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" src="../topmenuchap/job/30-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">AMP</a> > Job 30</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../job/29.htm" title="Job 29">◄</a> Job 30 <a href="../job/31.htm" title="Job 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"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Amplified Bible</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nas/esv/job/30.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><p class="hdg">Job’s Present State Is Humiliating</p><CC><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“But now those younger than I mock <i>and</i> laugh at me, <t><p class="indent1">Whose fathers I refused to put with the sheepdogs of my flock. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>“Indeed, how could the strength of their hands profit me? <t><p class="indent1">Vigor had perished from them. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>“They are gaunt with want and famine; <t><p class="indent1">They gnaw the dry <i>and</i> barren ground by night in [the gloom of] waste and desolation. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“They pluck [and eat] <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[a]</a></span>saltwort (mallows) among the bushes, <t><p class="indent1">And their food is the root of the broom shrub. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>“They are driven from the community; <t><p class="indent1">They shout after them as after a thief. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>“They must dwell on the slopes of <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[b]</a></span>wadis <t><p class="indent1"><i>And in</i> holes in the ground and in rocks. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>“Among the bushes they cry out [like wild animals]; <t><p class="indent1">Beneath the prickly scrub they gather <i>and</i> huddle together. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>“<i>They are the</i> sons of [worthless and nameless] fools, <t><p class="indent1">They have been driven out of the land. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“And now I have become [the subject of] their taunting; <t><p class="indent1">Yes, I am a <span class="fn"><a href="#fn">[c]</a></span>byword <i>and</i> a laughingstock to them. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“They hate me, they stand aloof from me, <t><p class="indent1">And do not refrain from spitting in my face. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>“For God has loosed His bowstring [attacking me] and [He has] afflicted <i>and</i> humbled me; <t><p class="indent1">They have cast off the bridle [of restraint] before me. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“On my right the [rabble] brood rises; <t><p class="indent1">They push my feet away, and they build up their ways of destruction against me [like an advancing army]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>“They break up <i>and</i> clutter my path [upsetting my plans], <t><p class="indent1">They profit from my destruction; <t><p class="indent1">No one restrains them. <poetry><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, <t><p class="indent1">Amid the crash [of falling walls] they roll on [over me]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>“Terrors are turned upon me; <t><p class="indent1">They chase away my honor <i>and</i> reputation like the wind, <t><p class="indent1">And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“And now my soul is poured out within me; <t><p class="indent1">The days of affliction have seized me. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>“My bones are pierced [with aching] in the night season, <t><p class="indent1">And <i>the pains</i> that gnaw me take no rest. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>“By the great force [of my disease] my garment (skin) is disfigured <i>and</i> blemished; <t><p class="indent1">It binds about me [choking me] like the collar of my coat. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“God has cast me into the mire [a swampland of crisis], <t><p class="indent1">And I have become [worthless] like dust and ashes. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“I cry to You for help, [Lord,] but You do not answer me; <t><p class="indent1">I stand up, but You [only] gaze [indifferently] at me. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>“You have become harsh <i>and</i> cruel to me; <t><p class="indent1">With the might of Your hand You [keep me alive only to] persecute me. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>“You lift me up on the wind and cause me to ride [upon it]; <t><p class="indent1">And You toss me about in the tempest <i>and</i> dissolve me in the storm. <poetry><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 <t><p class="indent1">And to the house of meeting [appointed] for all the living. <poetry><p class="paragraph"><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“However, does not one falling in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand? <t><p class="indent1">Or in his disaster [will he not] therefore cry out for help? <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>“Did I not weep for one whose life was hard <i>and</i> filled with trouble? <t><p class="indent1">Was not my heart grieved for the needy? <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>“When I expected good, then came evil [to me]; <t><p class="indent1">And when I waited for light, then came darkness. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>“I am seething within <i>and</i> my heart is troubled and cannot rest; <t><p class="indent1">Days of affliction come to meet me. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>“I go about mourning without comfort [my skin blackened by disease, not by the heat of the sun]; <t><p class="indent1">I stand up in the assembly <i>and</i> cry out for help. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>“I am a brother to [howling] jackals, <t><p class="indent1">And a companion to ostriches [which scream dismally]. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>“My skin falls from me in blackened flakes, <t><p class="indent1">And my bones are burned with fever. <poetry><p class="indent1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>“Therefore my lyre (harp) is <i>used</i> for [the sound of] mourning, <t><p class="indent1">And my flute for the [sound of the] voices of those who weep.<A name="fn"></a></p><br /><br /><span class="footnotesbot">[a]</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> I.e. a plant of the salt marshes.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[b]</span> <span class="fnverse">6</span> I.e. gullies or valleys made by torrents of water.<br><span class="footnotesbot">[c]</span> <span class="fnverse">9</span> I.e. the object of cruel jokes.<br></div><br /><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Amplified Bible Copyright © 2015<br>by The Lockman Foundation<br>All rights reserved <a href="http://www.lockman.org">www.lockman.org</a><br><br><a href="/">Bible Hub</a><br>                                                                                                                                <span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../job/29.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Job 29"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Job 29" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../job/31.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Job 31"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Job 31" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>