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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 Smith's Literal 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="../">SLT</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">Smith's Literal 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>And now the younger than I laughed upon me, which I rejected their fathers to set with the dogs of my flock.<p> <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Also the strength of their hands wherefore to me? Upon them old age perished.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>In want and in hunger, barren, gnawing the dry land, yesternight desolation and burning.<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Plucking off sea purslain upon the shrub, the root of broom their bread.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They shall be driven forth from the midst, they shall cry after them as a thief:<p> <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>To dwell in the horror of the valleys, holes of the dust, and the rocks.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Between the shrubs they will bray; they will be poured out under the thorn bush.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The sons of the foolish one, also the sons of no name: they were beaten from the land.<p> <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>And now I was their song, and I to them for a by word.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They abhorred me, they removed far from me, and withheld not spittle from my face.<p> <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>Because he loosed his cord and he will afflict me, and they cast off the bridle from before me.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Upon the right the brood will rise up; they cast away my feet, and they will cast up the paths of their destruction against me.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They tore up my beaten path, they helped for my fall, no help to them.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They will come as a wide breach under a destroying tempest, they rolled themselves.<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>Terror turned upon me, it will pursue my willingness as the wind, and my salvation passed away as a cloud.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And now my soul shall be poured out upon me; and the days of affliction will hold me fast.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The night my bones pierced from above me, and my gnawers will not lie down.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>By the multitude of power my clothing will be disguised: it will gird me about as the mouth of my coat.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He cast me to the clay; I shall become like as dust and ashes.<p> <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I shall cry to thee and thou wilt not answer me: I stood up and thou wilt not attend to me.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>Thou wilt turn to be cruel to me: with the strength of thy hand thou wilt lie in wait for me.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>Thou wilt lift me up to the wind; thou wilt cause me to ride, and thou wilt melt to me counsel.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For I knew thou wilt turn me back to death, and the house appointed to all living.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>But prayer is nothing; he will send forth the hand, if in his calamity to them a cry for help.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>If I wept not for him being hard of day: my soul was grieved for the needy.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>For I hoped for good and evil will come: and I shall wait for light and darkness will come.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>My bowels boiled, and were not silent: the days of affliction anticipated me.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I went darkened without warmth: I rose up, I shall cry in the convocation.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I was a brother to jackals, and a companion to the daughters of the ostrich.<p> <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>My skin was black from above me, and my bones burnt from heat.<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And my harp will be for mourning, and my pipe for the voice of those weeping.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible Containing the Old and New Testaments; 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