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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 Brenton's Septuagint Translation</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="../">Brenton</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">Brenton's Septuagint Translation</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/job/30-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Job’s Honor Turned to Contempt<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>But now the youngest have laughed me to scorn, now they reprove me in <i>their</i> turn, whose fathers I set at nought; whom I did not deem worthy <i>to be with</i> my shepherd dogs.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Yea, why had I the strength of their hands? for them the full term <i>of life</i> was lost.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><i>One is</i> childless in want and famine, <i>such as</i> they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Who compass the salt places on the sounding <i>shore</i>, who had salt <i>herbs</i> for their food, and were dishonorable and of no repute, in want of every good thing; who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Thieves have risen up against me,<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>whose houses were the caves of the rocks, who lived under the wild shrubs.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They will cry out among the rustling <i>bushes</i>.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><i>They are</i> sons of fools and vile men, <i>whose</i> name and glory <i>are</i> quenched from off the earth.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>But now I am their music, and they have me for a by-word.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>And they stood aloof and abhorred me, and spared not to spit in my face.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For he has opened his quiver and afflicted me: they also have cast off the restraint of my presence.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They have risen up against <i>me</i> on the right hand of <i>their</i> offspring; they have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>My paths are ruined; for they have stripped off my raiment: he has shot at me with his weapons.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And he has pleaded against me as he will: I am overwhelmed with pains.<p> <A name="16"></a><p class="hdg">Job’s Prosperity Becomes Calamity<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>My pains return upon <i>me</i>; my hope is gone like the wind, and my safety as a cloud.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me; and days of anguish seize me.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>With great force <i>my disease</i> has taken hold of my garment: it has compassed me as the collar of my coat.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And thou hast counted me as clay; my portion in dust and ashes.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>And I have cried to thee, but thou hearest me not: but they stood still, and observed me.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>They attacked me also without mercy: thou hast scourged me with a strong hand.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>And thou hast put me to grief, and hast cast me away from safety.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house <i>appointed</i> for every mortal.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself, or at least ask another, and he should do this for me.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>My belly boiled, and would not cease: the days of poverty prevented me.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I went mourning without restraint: and I have stood and cried out in the assembly.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I am become a brother of monsters, and a companion of ostriches.<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>My harp also has been turned into mourning, and my song into my weeping.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The English translation of The Septuagint by Sir Lancelot Charles Lee Brenton (1851)<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><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>