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Job 30
New International Version

30 “But now they mock me,(A)
men younger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
to put with my sheep dogs.(B)
2 Of what use was the strength of their hands to me,
since their vigor had gone from them?
3 Haggard from want and hunger,
they roamed[a]the parched land(C)
in desolate wastelands(D)at night.(E)
4 In the brush they gathered salt herbs,(F)
and their food[b]was the root of the broom bush.(G)
5 They were banished from human society,
shouted at as if they were thieves.
6 They were forced to live in the dry stream beds,
among the rocks and in holes in the ground.(H)
7 They brayed(I)among the bushes(J)
and huddled in the undergrowth.
8 A base and nameless brood,(K)
they were driven out of the land.(L)

9 “And now those young men mock me(M)in song;(N)
I have become a byword(O)among them.
10 They detest me(P)and keep their distance;
they do not hesitate to spit in my face.(Q)
11 Now that God has unstrung my bow(R)and afflicted me,(S)
they throw off restraint(T)in my presence.
12 On my right(U)the tribe[c]attacks;
they lay snares(V)for my feet,(W)
they build their siege ramps against me.(X)
13 They break up my road;(Y)
they succeed in destroying me.(Z)
‘No one can help him,’ they say.
14 They advance as through a gaping breach;(AA)
amid the ruins they come rolling in.
15 Terrors(AB)overwhelm me;(AC)
my dignity is driven away as by the wind,
my safety vanishes like a cloud.(AD)

16 “And now my life ebbs away;(AE)
days of suffering grip me.(AF)
17 Night pierces my bones;
my gnawing pains never rest.(AG)
18 In his great power(AH)God becomes like clothing to me[d];
he binds me like the neck of my garment.
19 He throws me into the mud,(AI)
and I am reduced to dust and ashes.(AJ)

20 “I cry out to you,(AK)God, but you do not answer;(AL)
I stand up, but you merely look at me.
21 You turn on me ruthlessly;(AM)
with the might of your hand(AN)you attack me.(AO)
22 You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;(AP)
you toss me about in the storm.(AQ)
23 I know you will bring me down to death,(AR)
to the place appointed for all the living.(AS)

24 “Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man(AT)
when he cries for help in his distress.(AU)
25 Have I not wept for those in trouble?(AV)
Has not my soul grieved for the poor?(AW)
26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;
when I looked for light, then came darkness.(AX)
27 The churning inside me never stops;(AY)
days of suffering confront me.(AZ)
28 I go about blackened,(BA)but not by the sun;
I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.(BB)
29 I have become a brother of jackals,(BC)
a companion of owls.(BD)
30 My skin grows black(BE)and peels;(BF)
my body burns with fever.(BG)
31 My lyre is tuned to mourning,(BH)
and my pipe(BI)to the sound of wailing.

#### Footnotes

1. Job 30:3 Orgnawed
2. Job 30:4 Orfuel
3. Job 30:12 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
4. Job 30:18 Hebrew; Septuagintpower he grasps my clothing

#### Cross references

1. Job 30:1:S Job 6:14; S 11:3; S Ps 119:21
2. Job 30:1:Isa 56:10
3. Job 30:3:Isa 8:21
4. Job 30:3:Job 24:5
5. Job 30:3:Jer 17:6
6. Job 30:4:Job 39:6
7. Job 30:4:S 1Ki 19:4
8. Job 30:6:Isa 2:19; Hos 10:8
9. Job 30:7:Job 6:5
10. Job 30:7:Job 39:5-6
11. Job 30:8:S Jdg 9:4
12. Job 30:8:S Job 18:18
13. Job 30:9:S Job 16:10; Ps 69:11
14. Job 30:9:Job 12:4; La 3:14, 63
15. Job 30:9:S Job 17:6
16. Job 30:10:Job 19:19
17. Job 30:10:S Dt 25:9; Mt 26:67
18. Job 30:11:S Job 29:20
19. Job 30:11:S Ge 12:17; S Ru 1:21
20. Job 30:11:Job 41:13; Ps 32:9
21. Job 30:12:Ps 109:6; Zec 3:1
22. Job 30:12:S Job 18:9
23. Job 30:12:Ps 140:4-5
24. Job 30:12:S Job 16:10
25. Job 30:13:Isa 3:12
26. Job 30:13:S Job 10:3
27. Job 30:14:S 2Ki 25:4
28. Job 30:15:S Job 6:4
29. Job 30:15:S Ex 3:6; Job 10:8; 31:2-3, 23; Ps 55:4-5
30. Job 30:15:S Job 3:25
31. Job 30:16:S Job 3:24
32. Job 30:16:ver 27; S Job 9:17
33. Job 30:17:S Dt 28:35; S Job 16:16
34. Job 30:18:S Job 9:4
35. Job 30:19:Ps 40:2; 69:2, 14; 130:1; Jer 38:6, 22
36. Job 30:19:S Ge 3:19; S Job 2:8
37. Job 30:20:S 1Ki 8:52; Ps 34:17; Pr 2:3; Mic 4:9
38. Job 30:20:S Job 19:7; La 3:8
39. Job 30:21:Jer 6:23; 30:14; 50:42
40. Job 30:21:Isa 9:12; 14:26; 31:3; Eze 6:14
41. Job 30:21:S Job 4:5; S 6:4; S 10:3
42. Job 30:22:Job 27:21; Jude 1:12
43. Job 30:22:S Job 9:17
44. Job 30:23:S 2Sa 14:14; S Job 3:13; S 10:3
45. Job 30:23:S Job 3:19
46. Job 30:24:Ps 145:14; Isa 42:3; 57:15
47. Job 30:24:S Job 19:7
48. Job 30:25:Lk 19:41; Php 3:18
49. Job 30:25:S Job 24:4; Ps 35:13-14; Ro 12:15
50. Job 30:26:S Job 3:6, 17; S 19:8; S Ps 82:5; S Jer 4:23
51. Job 30:27:Ps 38:8; La 2:11
52. Job 30:27:S ver 16
53. Job 30:28:S Job 17:14; La 4:8
54. Job 30:28:S Job 19:7; S 24:12
55. Job 30:29:Ps 44:19; Isa 34:13; Jer 9:11
56. Job 30:29:Ps 102:6; Mic 1:8
57. Job 30:30:S Job 17:14
58. Job 30:30:La 3:4; 4:8
59. Job 30:30:S Dt 28:35; S Job 16:16; Ps 102:3; La 1:13; 5:10
60. Job 30:31:S Ge 8:8; Ps 137:2; Isa 16:11; 24:8; Eze 26:13
61. Job 30:31:S Ge 4:21

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