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Job 30 (AMP)

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¹ BUT NOW they who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. ² Yes, how could the strength of their hands profit me? They were men whose ripe age and vigor had perished. ³ They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry and barren ground or flee into the wilderness, into the gloom of wasteness and desolation. ⁴ They pluck saltwort or mallows among the bushes, and roots of the broom for their food or to warm them. ⁵ They are driven from among men, who shout after them as after a thief. ⁶ They must dwell in the clefts of frightful valleys (gullies made by torrents) and in holes of the earth and of the rocks. ⁷ Among the bushes they bray and howl ; beneath the prickly scrub they fling themselves and huddle together. ⁸ Sons of the worthless and nameless, they have been scourged and crushed out of the land. ⁹ And now I have become their song; yes, I am a byword to them. ¹⁰ They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and do not refrain from spitting in my face or at the sight of me. ¹¹ For God has loosed my bowstring and afflicted and humbled me; they have cast off the bridle before me. ¹² On my right hand rises the rabble brood; they jostle me and push away my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction . ¹³ They break up and clutter my path ; they urge on my calamity, even though they have no helper . ¹⁴ As through a wide breach they come in; amid the crash they roll themselves upon me. ¹⁵ Terrors are turned upon me; my honor and reputation they chase away like the wind, and my welfare has passed away as a cloud. ¹⁶ And now my life is poured out within me; the days of affliction have gripped me. ¹⁷ My bones are pierced in the night season, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest. ¹⁸ By the great force my garment is disguised and disfigured; it binds me about like the collar of my coat. ¹⁹ has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. ²⁰ I cry to You, and You do not answer me; I stand up, but You gaze at me. ²¹ You have become harsh and cruel to me; with the might of Your hand You persecute me. ²² You lift me up on the wind; You cause me to ride upon it, and You toss me about in the tempest. ²³ For I know that You will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all the living. ²⁴ However, does not one falling in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand? Or in his calamity will he not therefore cry for help? ²⁵ Did not I weep for him who was in trouble? Was not my heart grieved for the poor and needy? ²⁶ But when I looked for good, then evil came to me; and when I waited for light, there came darkness. ²⁷ My heart is troubled and does not rest; days of affliction come to meet me. ²⁸ I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the congregation and cry for help. ²⁹ I am a brother to jackals , and a companion to ostriches . ³⁰ My skin falls from me in blackened flakes, and my bones are burned with heat. ³¹ Therefore my lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.