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class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">to set with the dogs of my flock.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">2</span>What could I gain from the strength of their hands?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">All their vigor is gone.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">3</span>Through want and hard hunger</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they gnaw the dry and desolate ground,</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">4</span>they pick mallow and the leaves of bushes,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and to warm themselves the roots of broom.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">5</span>They are driven out from society;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">people shout after them as after a thief.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">6</span>In the gullies of wadis they must live,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">in holes in the ground, and in the rocks.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">7</span>Among the bushes they bray;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">under the nettles they huddle together.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>A senseless, disreputable brood,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they have been whipped out of the land.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>“And now they mock me in song;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I am a byword to them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>They abhor me, they keep aloof from me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>Because God has loosed my bowstring and humbled me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they have cast off restraint in my presence.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>On my right hand the rabble rise up;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they send me sprawling,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and build roads for my ruin.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>They break up my path,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">they promote my calamity;</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">no one restrains<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15641a" title="See footnote a">a</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote a">a</a>]</span> them.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>As through a wide breach they come;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">amid the crash they roll on.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Terrors are turned upon me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">my honor is pursued as by the wind,</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>“And now my soul is poured out within me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">days of affliction have taken hold of me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>The night racks my bones,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>With violence he seizes my garment;<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15646b" title="See footnote b">b</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote b">b</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">he grasps me by<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15646c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> the collar of my tunic.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>He has cast me into the mire,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and I have become like dust and ashes.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>I cry to you and you do not answer me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I stand, and you merely look at me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>You have turned cruel to me;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">with the might of your hand you persecute me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>You lift me up on the wind, you make me ride on it,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>I know that you will bring me to death,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and to the house appointed for all living.</span></span></p></div> <div class="poetry top-1"><p class="line"><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>“Surely one does not turn against the needy,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15652d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span></span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">when in disaster they cry for help.<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-15652e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span></span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>Did I not weep for those whose day was hard?</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">Was not my soul grieved for the poor?</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>But when I looked for good, evil came;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and when I waited for light, darkness came.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>My inward parts are in turmoil, and are never still;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">days of affliction come to meet me.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>I go about in sunless gloom;</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>I am a brother of jackals,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and a companion of ostriches.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>My skin turns black and falls from me,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and my bones burn with heat.</span></span><br /><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>My lyre is turned to mourning,</span><br /><span class="indent-1"><span class="indent-1-breaks">    </span><span class="text">and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.</span></span></p></div> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 30:13">Job 30:13</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Heb <i>helps</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 30:18">Job 30:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk: Heb <i>my garment is disfigured</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 30:18">Job 30:18</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>like</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 30:24">Job 30:24</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Heb <i>ruin</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to Job 30:24">Job 30:24</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Cn: Meaning of Heb uncertain</span></li></ol></div> </div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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