But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
JOB 30:1
Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
JOB 30:2
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
JOB 30:3
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
JOB 30:4
They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
JOB 30:5
To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
JOB 30:6
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
JOB 30:7
They were children of fools, yea, children of base men they were viler than the earth.
JOB 30:8
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
JOB 30:9
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
JOB 30:10
Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
JOB 30:11
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
JOB 30:12
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
JOB 30:13
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
JOB 30:14
Terrors are turned upon me they pursue my soul as the wind and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
JOB 30:15
And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
JOB 30:16
My bones are pierced in me in the night season and my sinews take no rest.
JOB 30:17
By the great force of my disease is my garment changed it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
JOB 30:18
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
JOB 30:19
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
JOB 30:20
Thou art become cruel to me with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
JOB 30:21
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
JOB 30:22
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
JOB 30:23
Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
JOB 30:24
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
JOB 30:25
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
JOB 30:26
My bowels boiled, and rested not the days of affliction prevented me.
JOB 30:27
I went mourning without the sun I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
JOB 30:28
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
JOB 30:29
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
JOB 30:30
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
JOB 30:31