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they keep aloof from me;</span><br /><span class="indent">they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me,</span><br /><span class="indent">they have cast off restraint<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew the bridle">b</a></sup></span> in my presence.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">On my right hand the rabble rise;</span><br /><span class="indent">they push away my feet;</span><br /><span class="indent">they cast up 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><span class="ln-group">They break up my path;</span><br /><span class="indent">they promote my calamity;</span><br /><span class="indent">they need no one to help them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">As through a wide breach they come;</span><br /><span class="indent">amid the crash they roll on.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Terrors are turned upon me;</span><br /><span class="indent">my honor is pursued as by the wind,</span><br /><span class="indent">and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“And now my soul is poured out within me;</span><br /><span class="indent">days of affliction have taken hold of me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The night racks my bones,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">With great force my garment is disfigured;</span><br /><span class="indent">it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">God<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew He">c</a></sup></span> has cast me into the mire,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I have become like dust and ashes.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I cry to you for help and you do not answer me;</span><br /><span class="indent">I stand, and you only look at me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You have turned cruel to me;</span><br /><span class="indent">with the might of your hand you persecute me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it,</span><br /><span class="indent">and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">For I know that you will bring me to death</span><br /><span class="indent">and to the house appointed for all living.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand,</span><br /><span class="indent">and in his disaster cry for help?<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain">d</a></sup></span></span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Did not I weep for him whose day was hard?</span><br /><span class="indent">Was not my soul grieved for the needy?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">But when I hoped for good, evil came,</span><br /><span class="indent">and when I waited for light, darkness came.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My inward parts are in turmoil and never still;</span><br /><span class="indent">days of affliction come to meet me.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I go about darkened, but not by the sun;</span><br /><span class="indent">I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I am a brother of jackals</span><br /><span class="indent">and a companion of ostriches.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My skin turns black and falls from me,</span><br /><span class="indent">and my bones burn with heat.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">My lyre is turned to mourning,</span><br /><span class="indent">and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">4</span> Or <i>warmth</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">11</span> Hebrew <i>the bridle</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">19</span> Hebrew <i>He</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">24</span> The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain<br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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