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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">JPS Tanakh 1917</div><div class="chap"><div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>But now they that are younger than I have me in derision,</div><div class="po2">Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me?</div><div class="po2">Men in whom ripe age is perished.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>They are gaunt with want and famine;</div><div class="po2">They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They pluck salt-wort with wormwood;</div><div class="po2">And the roots of the broom are their food.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They are driven forth from the midst of men;</div><div class="po2">They cry after them as after a thief.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>In the clefts of the valleys must they dwell,</div><div class="po2">In holes of the earth and of the rocks.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Among the bushes they bray;</div><div class="po2">Under the nettles they are gathered together.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They are children of churls, yea, children of ignoble men;</div><div class="po2">They were scourged out of the land.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And now I am become their song,</div><div class="po2">Yea, I am a byword unto them.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They abhor me, they flee far from me,</div><div class="po2">And spare not to spit in my face.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For He hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me,</div><div class="po2">And they have cast off the bridle before me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Upon my right hand rise the brood;</div><div class="po2">They entangle my feet,</div><div class="po2">And they cast up against me their ways of destruction.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They break up my path,</div><div class="po2">They further my calamity,</div><div class="po2">Even men that have no helper.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>As through a wide breach they come;</div><div class="po2">In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Terrors are turned upon me,</div><div class="po2">They chase mine honour as the wind;</div><div class="po2">And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And now my soul is poured out within me;</div><div class="po2">Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>In the night my bones are pierced, and fall from me,</div><div class="po2">And my sinews take no rest.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>By the great force [of my disease] is my garment disfigured;</div><div class="po2">It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He hath cast me into the mire,</div><div class="po2">And I am become like dust and ashes.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I cry unto Thee, and Thou dost not answer me;</div><div class="po2">I stand up, and Thou lookest at me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Thou art turned to be cruel to me;</div><div class="po2">With the might of Thy hand Thou hatest me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Thou liftest me up to the wind, Thou causest me to ride upon it;</div><div class="po2">And Thou dissolvest my substance.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For I know that Thou wilt bring me to death,</div><div class="po2">And to the house appointed for all living.</div> <p class="section"></p><div class="po3"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Surely none shall put forth his hand to a ruinous heap,</div><div class="po2">Neither because of these things shall help come in one’s calamity,</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>If I have not wept for him that was in trouble,</div><div class="po2">And if my soul grieved not for the needy.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Yet, when I looked for good, there came evil;</div><div class="po2">And when I waited for light, there came darkness.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Mine inwards boil, and rest not;</div><div class="po2">Days of affliction are come upon me.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I go mourning without the sun;</div><div class="po2">I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I am become a brother to jackals,</div><div class="po2">And a companion to ostriches.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>My skin is black, and falleth from me,</div><div class="po2">And my bones are burned with heat.</div> <div class="po1"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Therefore is my harp turned to mourning,</div><div class="po2">And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.</div></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">THE HOLY SCRIPTURES<br>ACCORDING TO THE MASORETIC TEXT<br>A NEW TRANSLATION<p><a href="//www.jps.org/">Jewish Publication Society</a><br>1917<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible 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