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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">International Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/isv/esv/job/30.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Job Describes His Current Status in Life</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“But now they mock me;</p> <p class="poetry2">men who are far younger than I,</p> <p class="poetry2">whose fathers I would have hated</p> <p class="poetry2">to entrust with my own sheep dogs.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>Furthermore, what could I have gained</p> <p class="poetry2">from men whose strength is gone?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Unproductive due to poverty<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="30:3 Or want">a</a></span> and hunger,</p> <p class="poetry2">they could only scratch in parched soil,</p> <p class="poetry2">devastated and desolated.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>“They would pluck off herbs from salt marshes to eat;</p> <p class="poetry2">and roots of the broom shrub<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="30:4 i.e. a desert bush native to Israel whose bitter roots could be harvested by the destitute and eaten when food was scarce">b</a></span> for food.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>Driven away from human company,</p> <p class="poetry2">they were shouted at as though they were thieves.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>They lived in the most dangerous of ravines,</p> <p class="poetry2">in holes in the ground, and among rocks.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They bray like donkeys<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="30:7 The Heb. lacks like donkeys ">c</a></span> among the bushes</p> <p class="poetry2">and huddle together under the desert weeds.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Sons of fools and of uncertain reputation,<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="30:8 The Or and without a name">d</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">they have been driven from the land by scourging.”</p> <p class="heading">Job Presents the Actions of the Mockers</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>“Now, I’ve become the object of their mocking melodies;<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="30:9 Lit. their neginnoth">e</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">I’m nothing but a fool’s proverb to them!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They abhor me—they keep their distance from me;</p> <p class="poetry2">but they don’t refrain from spitting at the sight of me.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>But God<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="30:11 Lit. he">f</a></span> has loosened his cord and afflicted me;</p> <p class="poetry2">so they’ve cast off all restraints in my presence.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“A wretched crowd ambushes me to my right;</p> <p class="poetry2">they trip my feet;</p> <p class="poetry2">they build up their path of calamity for me.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They tear up my pathways;</p> <p class="poetry2">they profit from my destruction,</p> <p class="poetry2">and they need no help to do this!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They come like those who breach through a wall;</p> <p class="poetry2">as everything crashes around me they’ll roll on and on!</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>My greatest fears have overcome me;</p> <p class="poetry2">my honor is assaulted as though by a wind storm;</p> <p class="poetry2">my prosperity evaporates like a morning cloud.”</p> <p class="heading">Job Accuses God of Mistreating Him</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>“Now, my soul pours itself out;</p> <p class="poetry2">the time of my affliction has taken control of me.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>The night racks my bones;</p> <p class="poetry2">and the pain that gnaws on me will not rest.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>My clothes are disheveled by his forceful treatment of me;<span class="fn"><a href="#ftn" title="30:18 The Heb. lacks of me">g</a></span> </p> <p class="poetry2">he restricts my movement like the collar of my cloak.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“He tossed me into the mire;</p> <p class="poetry2">I’ve become like dust and ashes.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I cry for help to you,</p> <p class="poetry2">but you won’t answer me;</p> <p class="poetry2">I stand still,</p> <p class="poetry2">but you only look at me.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>You changed toward me, and now you’re cruel to me;</p> <p class="poetry2">with your mighty hand you are persecuting me;</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>you carried me off in a wind storm,</p> <p class="poetry2">making me ride on it</p> <p class="poetry2">while you toss me about as the storm roars around me.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>I know that you’re about to kill me,</p> <p class="poetry2">so I’m about to go to the house that’s appointed for all the living.”</p> <p class="heading">Job Lists His Hopes Despite His Deplorable Condition</p><p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>“Surely he won’t stretch his hand against the needy, will he,</p> <p class="poetry2">especially if they cry to him in their calamity?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Haven’t I wept for the one who is going through hard times?</p> <p class="poetry2">Haven’t I grieved for the needy?</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>I have hoped for good, but evil came instead;</p> <p class="poetry2">I have hoped for light, but darkness came.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>I’m boiling mad inside, and I won’t remain silent;</p> <p class="poetry2">the time for my affliction to confront me has arrived.</p> <p class="poetry1 margintop"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>“In growing darkness, I walked without sunlight;</p> <p class="poetry2">I stood in the congregation to cry for help.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I’ve become a brother to jackals,</p> <p class="poetry2">and a friend to ostriches.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>My skin turns black all over me;</p> <p class="poetry2">and my bones seem burned from the heat.</p> <p class="poetry1"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/job/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>But my harp is in mourning;</p> <p class="poetry2">my flute plays only songs for those who are weeping.”</p> <p class="poetry2">Job Asserts His Moral Innocence</p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="ftn"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="fn1"><span class="fnb">a</span> 30:3 Or <i>want</i><br /><span class="fnb">b</span> 30:4 i.e. a desert bush native to Israel whose bitter roots could be harvested by the destitute and eaten when food was scarce<br /><span class="fnb">c</span> 30:7 The Heb. lacks <i>like donkeys</i><br /><span class="fnb">d</span> 30:8 The Or <i>and without a name</i><br /><span class="fnb">e</span> 30:9 Lit. <i>their neginnoth</i><br /><span class="fnb">f</span> 30:11 Lit. <i>he</i><br /><span class="fnb">g</span> 30:18 The Heb. lacks <i>of me</i><br /></span><br><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><div align="center"><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The Holy Bible: International Standard Version® Release 2.1<br />Copyright © 1996-2012 The ISV Foundation<br />ALL RIGHTS RESERVED INTERNATIONALLY.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a 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