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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 Literal Standard Version</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> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><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="../">LSV</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">Literal Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/job/30-1.htm#aramaic" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>“And now, laughed at me, "" Have the younger in days than I, "" Whose fathers I have loathed 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 power of their hands, why [is it] to me? On them old age has perished.<p> <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>With want and with harsh famine, "" They are gnawing a dry place [in] the recent night, "" [In] desolation and ruin,<p> <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>Those cropping mallows near a shrub, "" And their food [is] root of broom trees.<p> <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>They are cast out from the midst "" (They shout against 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 a frightful place of valleys, "" Holes of earth and clefts.<p> <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>They groan among shrubs, "" They are gathered together under nettles.<p> <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Sons of folly—even sons without name, "" They have been struck 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 have been their song, "" And I am to them for a byword.<p> <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>They have detested me, "" They have kept far from me, "" And from before me have not spared to spit.<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 afflicts me, "" And the bridle from before me, "" They have cast away.<p> <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>A brood arises on the right hand, "" They have cast away my feet, "" And they raise up against me, "" Their paths of calamity.<p> <A name="14"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They have broken down my path, "" They profit by my calamity: He has no helper.<p> <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>They come as a wide breach, "" Under the desolation have rolled themselves.<p> <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>He has turned terrors against me, "" It pursues my abundance as the wind, "" And as a thick cloud, "" My safety has passed away.<p> <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>And now, in me my soul pours itself out, "" Days of affliction seize me.<p> <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>[At] night my bone has been pierced in me, "" And my gnawing [pain] does not lie down.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>By the abundance of power, "" Is my clothing changed, "" As the mouth of my coat it girds me.<p> <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>Casting me into mire, "" And I have become like dust and ashes.<p> <A name="21"></a><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 have stood, and You consider me.<p> <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>You are turned to be fierce to me, "" With the strength of Your hand, "" You oppress me.<p> <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>You lift me up, "" You cause me to ride on the wind, "" And You melt—You level me.<p> <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>For I have known You bring me back [to] death, "" And [to] the house appointed for all living.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Surely not against the heap "" Does He send forth the hand, "" Though they have safety in its ruin.<p> <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Did I not weep for him whose day is hard? My soul has grieved for the needy.<p> <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>When I expected good, then comes evil, "" And I wait for light, and darkness comes.<p> <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, "" Days of affliction have gone before me.<p> <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>I have gone mourning without the sun, "" I have risen, I cry in an assembly.<p> <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>I have been a brother to dragons, "" And a companion to 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 has been black on me, "" And my bone has burned from heat,<p> <span class="reftext"><a href="/job/30-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>And my harp becomes mourning, "" And my pipe the sound of weeping.”<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Literal Standard Version<br>Copyright © 2022 by Covenant Press. 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