job 30:1

  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 30:2

  Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

job 30:3

  For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

job 30:4

  Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

job 30:5

  They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

job 30:6

  To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

job 30:7

  Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

job 30:8

  They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

job 30:9

  And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

job 30:10

  They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

job 30:11

  Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

job 30:12

  Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

job 30:13

  They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

job 30:14

  They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

job 30:15

  Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

job 30:16

  And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

job 30:17

  My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

job 30:18

  By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

job 30:19

  He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

job 30:20

  I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

job 30:21

  Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

job 30:22

  Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

job 30:23

  For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

job 30:24

  Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

job 30:25

  Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

job 30:26

  When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

job 30:27

  My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

job 30:28

  I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

job 30:29

  I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

job 30:30

  My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

job 30:31

  My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.