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valign="top">New King James Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/nkjv/kjv/job/30.shtml" style=color:#001320 title=Parallel Chapters> Par ▾ </a></td></tr></table></div><div class="chap"> <h3>Job’s Wealth Now Poverty</span></h3><div class="poetry"><p class="line"><span class="chapter-2"><span class="text Job-30-1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“But now they mock at me, <i>men</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[a]</a></span>younger than I,</span></span><br /><span class="text Job-30-1">Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Indeed, what <i>profit</i> is the strength of their hands to me?</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-2">Their vigor has perished.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><i>They are</i> gaunt from want and famine,</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-3">Fleeing late to the wilderness, desolate and waste,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Who pluck <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[b]</a></span>mallow by the bushes,</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-4">And broom tree roots <i>for</i> their food.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They were driven out from among <i>men,</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-30-5">They shouted at them as <i>at</i> a thief.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><i>They had</i> to live in the clefts of the <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[c]</a></span>valleys,</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-6"><i>In</i> <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[d]</a></span>caves of the earth and the rocks.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Among the bushes they brayed,</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-7">Under the nettles they nestled.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><i>They were</i> sons of fools,</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-8">Yes, sons of vile men;</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-8">They were scourged from the land.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“And now I am their taunting song;</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-9">Yes, I am their byword.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They abhor me, they keep far from me;</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-10">They do not hesitate to spit in my face.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Because He has loosed <span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[e]</a></span>my bowstring and afflicted me,</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-11">They have cast off restraint before me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>At <i>my</i> right <i>hand</i> the rabble arises;</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-12">They push away my feet,</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-12">And they raise against me their ways of destruction.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They break up my path,</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-13">They promote my calamity;</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-13">They have no helper.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They come as broad breakers;</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-14">Under the ruinous storm they roll along.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Terrors are turned upon me;</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-15">They pursue my honor as the wind,</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-15">And my prosperity has passed like a cloud.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“And now my soul is poured out because of my <i>plight;</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-30-16">The days of affliction take hold of me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>My bones are pierced in me at night,</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-17">And my gnawing pains take no rest.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>By great force my garment is disfigured;</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-18">It binds me about as the collar of my coat.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He has cast me into the mire,</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-19">And I have become like dust and ashes.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“I cry out to You, but You do not answer me;</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-20">I stand up, and You regard me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><i>But</i> You have become cruel to me;</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-21">With the strength of Your hand You oppose me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride <i>on it;</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-30-22">You spoil my success.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For I know <i>that</i> You will bring me <i>to</i> death,</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-23">And <i>to</i> the house appointed for all living.</span></p></div> <div class="poetry_top-1"><p class="line"> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“Surely He would not stretch out <i>His</i> hand against a heap of ruins,</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-24">If they cry out when He destroys <i>it.</i></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Have I not wept for him who was in trouble?</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-25">Has <i>not</i> my soul grieved for the poor?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>But when I looked for good, evil came <i>to me;</i></span><br /><span class="text Job-30-26">And when I waited for light, then came darkness.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="fn"><a href="#footnotes">[f]</a></span>My heart is in turmoil and cannot rest;</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-27">Days of affliction confront me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I go about mourning, but not in the sun;</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-28">I stand up in the assembly <i>and</i> cry out for help.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I am a brother of jackals,</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-29">And a companion of ostriches.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>My skin grows black and falls from me;</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-30">My bones burn with fever.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>My harp is <i>turned</i> to mourning,</span><br /><span class="text Job-30-31">And my flute to the voice of those who weep.</span></p></div> <A name="footnotes"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes:</h4><ol><li id="fen-NKJV-13559a"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 30:1">Job 30:1</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>of fewer days</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13562b"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 30:4">Job 30:4</span> <span class='footnote-text'>A plant of the salty marshes</span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13564c"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 30:6">Job 30:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>wadis</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13564d"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 30:6">Job 30:6</span> <span class='footnote-text'>Lit. <i>holes</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13569e"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 30:11">Job 30:11</span> <span class='footnote-text'>So with MT, Syr., Tg.; LXX, Vg. <i>His</i></span></li><li id="fen-NKJV-13585f"><span class="fnref" title="Go to Job 30:27">Job 30:27</span> <span class='footnote-text'><i>I seethe inside</i></span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible, New King James Version, Copyright © 1982 Thomas Nelson. 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