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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">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/job/30.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“But now they mock me,</p><p class="line2">men younger than I,</p><p class="line1">whose fathers I would have disdained</p><p class="line2">to put with my sheep dogs.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Of what use was the strength of their hands to me,</p><p class="line2">since their vigor had gone from them?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Haggard from want and hunger,</p><p class="line2">they roamed <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or gnawed">a</a></sup></span> the parched land</p><p class="line2">in desolate wastelands at night.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>In the brush they gathered salt herbs,</p><p class="line2">and their food <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or fuel">b</a></sup></span> was the root of the broom bush.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They were banished from human society,</p><p class="line2">shouted at as if they were thieves.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They were forced to live in the dry stream beds,</p><p class="line2">among the rocks and in holes in the ground.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They brayed among the bushes</p><p class="line2">and huddled in the undergrowth.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>A base and nameless brood,</p><p class="line2">they were driven out of the land.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“And now those young men mock me in song;</p><p class="line2">I have become a byword among them.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They detest me and keep their distance;</p><p class="line2">they do not hesitate to spit in my face.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me,</p><p class="line2">they throw off restraint in my presence.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>On my right the tribe <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.">c</a></sup></span> attacks;</p><p class="line2">they lay snares for my feet,</p><p class="line2">they build their siege ramps against me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They break up my road;</p><p class="line2">they succeed in destroying me.</p><p class="line2">‘No one can help him,’ they say.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They advance as through a gaping breach;</p><p class="line2">amid the ruins they come rolling in.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Terrors overwhelm me;</p><p class="line2">my dignity is driven away as by the wind,</p><p class="line2">my safety vanishes like a cloud.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“And now my life ebbs away;</p><p class="line2">days of suffering grip me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Night pierces my bones;</p><p class="line2">my gnawing pains never rest.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>In his great power God becomes like clothing to me <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew; Septuagint power he grasps my clothing">d</a></sup></span> ;</p><p class="line2">he binds me like the neck of my garment.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He throws me into the mud,</p><p class="line2">and I am reduced to dust and ashes.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer;</p><p class="line2">I stand up, but you merely look at me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>You turn on me ruthlessly;</p><p class="line2">with the might of your hand you attack me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;</p><p class="line2">you toss me about in the storm.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>I know you will bring me down to death,</p><p class="line2">to the place appointed for all the living.</p></div> <div class="stanza"><p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man</p><p class="line2">when he cries for help in his distress.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Have I not wept for those in trouble?</p><p class="line2">Has not my soul grieved for the poor?</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;</p><p class="line2">when I looked for light, then came darkness.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>The churning inside me never stops;</p><p class="line2">days of suffering confront me.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I go about blackened, but not by the sun;</p><p class="line2">I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I have become a brother of jackals,</p><p class="line2">a companion of owls.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>My skin grows black and peels;</p><p class="line2">my body burns with fever.</p> <p class="line1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>My lyre is tuned to mourning,</p><p class="line2">and my pipe to the sound of wailing.</p></div><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">3</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>gnawed</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> <span class="footnotebot">Or <i>fuel</i></span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> <span class="footnotebot">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> <span class="footnotebot">Hebrew; Septuagint <i>power he grasps my clothing</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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