Job Chapter 30 (KJV)

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undefined 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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