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They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they are gathered together.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>"Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don't hesitate to spit in my face.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in.</p> <p class="hdg">Job's Prosperity Becomes Calamity</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>"Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>"However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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