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class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-1.htm">1</a>"But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-1.htm">1</a>“But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-1.htm">1</a>"But now those younger than I mock me, Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-1.htm">1</a>But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-1.htm">1</a>But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-2.htm">2</a>Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-2.htm">2</a>What could I gain from the strength of their hands, men whose vigor is gone?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-2.htm">2</a>"Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me? Vigor had perished from them.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-2.htm">2</a>Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-2.htm">2</a>What use to me was the strength of their hands? Their vigor had left them. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-3.htm">3</a>Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-3.htm">3</a>Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation;</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-3.htm">3</a>"From want and famine they are gaunt Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-3.htm">3</a>For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-3.htm">3</a>Emaciated from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, the desolate wasteland by night. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-4.htm">4</a>In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom bush.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-4.htm">4</a>they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes, and the roots of the broom tree for their food.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-4.htm">4</a>Who pluck mallow by the bushes, And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-4.htm">4</a>Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-4.htm">4</a>They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-5.htm">5</a>They were banished from human society, shouted at as if they were thieves.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-5.htm">5</a>They are driven out from human company; they shout after them as after a thief.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-5.htm">5</a>"They are driven from the community; They shout against them as against a thief,</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-5.htm">5</a>They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-5.htm">5</a>They were expelled from human society; people shouted at them as if they were thieves. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-6.htm">6</a>They were forced to live in the dry stream beds, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-6.htm">6</a>In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-6.htm">6</a>So that they dwell in dreadful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-6.htm">6</a>To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-6.htm">6</a>They are living on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-7.htm">7</a>They brayed among the bushes and huddled in the undergrowth.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-7.htm">7</a>Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-7.htm">7</a>"Among the bushes they cry out; Under the nettles they are gathered together.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-7.htm">7</a>Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-7.htm">7</a>They bray among the shrubs; they huddle beneath the thistles. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-8.htm">8</a>A base and nameless brood, they were driven out of the land.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-8.htm">8</a>A senseless, a nameless brood, they have been whipped out of the land.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-8.htm">8</a>"Fools, even those without a name, They were scourged from the land.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-8.htm">8</a>They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-8.htm">8</a>Foolish men, without even a name. They were forced to leave the land. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-9.htm">9</a>"And now those young men mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-9.htm">9</a>“And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-9.htm">9</a>"And now I have become their taunt, I have even become a byword to them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-9.htm">9</a>And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-9.htm">9</a>Now I am mocked by their songs; I have become an object of scorn to them. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-10.htm">10</a>They detest me and keep their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-10.htm">10</a>They abhor me; they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-10.htm">10</a>"They abhor me and stand aloof from me, And they do not refrain from spitting at my face.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-10.htm">10</a>They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-10.htm">10</a>They despise me and keep their distance from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-11.htm">11</a>Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they throw off restraint in my presence.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-11.htm">11</a>Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-11.htm">11</a>"Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me, They have cast off the bridle before me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-11.htm">11</a>Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-11.htm">11</a>Because God has loosened my bowstring and oppressed me, they have cast off restraint in my presence. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-12.htm">12</a>On my right the tribe attacks; they lay snares for my feet, they build their siege ramps against me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-12.htm">12</a>On my right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they cast up against me their ways of destruction.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-12.htm">12</a>"On the right hand their brood arises; They thrust aside my feet and build up against me their ways of destruction.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-12.htm">12</a>Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-12.htm">12</a>The rabble rise up at my right; they trap my feet and construct their siege ramp against me. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-13.htm">13</a>They break up my road; they succeed in destroying me. 'No one can help him,' they say.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-13.htm">13</a>They break up my path; they promote my calamity; they need no one to help them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-13.htm">13</a>"They break up my path, They profit from my destruction; No one restrains them.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-13.htm">13</a>They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-13.htm">13</a>They tear up my path; they contribute to my destruction, without anyone to help them. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-14.htm">14</a>They advance as through a gaping breach; amid the ruins they come rolling in.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-14.htm">14</a>As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-14.htm">14</a>"As through a wide breach they come, Amid the tempest they roll on.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-14.htm">14</a>They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-14.htm">14</a>They advance as through a gaping breach; they keep rolling in through the ruins. </td></tr></table> Job's Prosperity Becomes Calamity<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-15.htm">15</a>Terrors overwhelm me; my dignity is driven away as by the wind, my safety vanishes like a cloud.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-15.htm">15</a>Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-15.htm">15</a>"Terrors are turned against me; They pursue my honor as the wind, And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-15.htm">15</a>Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-15.htm">15</a>Terrors are turned loose against me; they chase my dignity away like the wind, and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-16.htm">16</a>"And now my life ebbs away; days of suffering grip me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-16.htm">16</a>“And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-16.htm">16</a>"And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have seized me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-16.htm">16</a>And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-16.htm">16</a>Now my life is poured out before my eyes, and days of suffering have seized me. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-17.htm">17</a>Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never rest.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-17.htm">17</a>The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-17.htm">17</a>"At night it pierces my bones within me, And my gnawing pains take no rest.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-17.htm">17</a>My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-17.htm">17</a>Night pierces my bones, but my gnawing pains never rest. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-18.htm">18</a>In his great power God becomes like clothing to me; he binds me like the neck of my garment.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-18.htm">18</a>With great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-18.htm">18</a>"By a great force my garment is distorted; It binds me about as the collar of my coat.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-18.htm">18</a>By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-18.htm">18</a>My clothing is distorted with great force; He chokes me by the neck of my garment. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-19.htm">19</a>He throws me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-19.htm">19</a>God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-19.htm">19</a>"He has cast me into the mire, And I have become like dust and ashes.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-19.htm">19</a>He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-19.htm">19</a>He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-20.htm">20</a>"I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-20.htm">20</a>I cry to you for help and you do not answer me; I stand, and you only look at me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-20.htm">20</a>"I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me; I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-20.htm">20</a>I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-20.htm">20</a>I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me; when I stand up, You merely look at me. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-21.htm">21</a>You turn on me ruthlessly; with the might of your hand you attack me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-21.htm">21</a>You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-21.htm">21</a>"You have become cruel to me; With the might of Your hand You persecute me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-21.htm">21</a>Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-21.htm">21</a>You have turned against me with cruelty; You harass me with Your strong hand. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-22.htm">22</a>You snatch me up and drive me before the wind; you toss me about in the storm.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-22.htm">22</a>You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it, and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-22.htm">22</a>"You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride; And You dissolve me in a storm.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-22.htm">22</a>Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-22.htm">22</a>You lift me up on the wind and make me ride it; You scatter me in the storm. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-23.htm">23</a>I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-23.htm">23</a>For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-23.htm">23</a>"For I know that You will bring me to death And to the house of meeting for all living.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-23.htm">23</a>For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-23.htm">23</a>Yes, I know that You will lead me to death-- the place appointed for all who live. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-24.htm">24</a>"Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-24.htm">24</a>“Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-24.htm">24</a>"Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, Or in his disaster therefore cry out for help?</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-24.htm">24</a>Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-24.htm">24</a>Yet no one would stretch out his hand against a ruined man when he cries out to him for help because of his distress. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-25.htm">25</a>Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-25.htm">25</a>Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-25.htm">25</a>"Have I not wept for the one whose life is hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-25.htm">25</a>Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-25.htm">25</a>Have I not wept for those who have fallen on hard times? Has my soul not grieved for the needy? </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-26.htm">26</a>Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-26.htm">26</a>But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-26.htm">26</a>"When I expected good, then evil came; When I waited for light, then darkness came.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-26.htm">26</a>When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-26.htm">26</a>But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness came. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-27.htm">27</a>The churning inside me never stops; days of suffering confront me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-27.htm">27</a>My inward parts are in turmoil and never still; days of affliction come to meet me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-27.htm">27</a>"I am seething within and cannot relax; Days of affliction confront me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-27.htm">27</a>My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-27.htm">27</a>I am churning within and cannot rest; days of suffering confront me. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-28.htm">28</a>I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-28.htm">28</a>I go about darkened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-28.htm">28</a>"I go about mourning without comfort; I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-28.htm">28</a>I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-28.htm">28</a>I walk about blackened, but not by the sun. I stood in the assembly and cried out for help. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/niv/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NIV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/esv/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>ESV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/nasb/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>NASB</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/kjv/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>KJV</td><td class="version" width="20%"><a href="/hcsb/job/30.htm"><img src="/lnk.gif" border="0"></a>HCSB</td></tr></table><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-29.htm">29</a>I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of owls.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-29.htm">29</a>I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-29.htm">29</a>"I have become a brother to jackals And a companion of ostriches.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-29.htm">29</a>I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-29.htm">29</a>I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-30.htm">30</a>My skin grows black and peels; my body burns with fever.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-30.htm">30</a>My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-30.htm">30</a>"My skin turns black on me, And my bones burn with fever.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-30.htm">30</a>My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.</td><td width="20%" class="even" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-30.htm">30</a>My skin blackens and flakes off, and my bones burn with fever. </td></tr></table> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-31.htm">31</a>My lyre is tuned to mourning, and my pipe to the sound of wailing.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-31.htm">31</a>My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-31.htm">31</a>"Therefore my harp is turned to mourning, And my flute to the sound of those who weep.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-31.htm">31</a>My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.</td><td width="20%" class="odd" valign="top"><a href="/job/30-31.htm">31</a>My lyre is used for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping. </td></tr></table><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"> THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com" target="_top">Biblica®</a>. 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