1
But now they mock(A) me,
men younger than I am,
whose fathers I would have refused to put
with my sheep dogs.
2 men younger than I am,
whose fathers I would have refused to put
with my sheep dogs.
What use to me was the strength of their hands?
Their vigor had left them.
3 Their vigor had left them.
Emaciated from poverty and hunger,
they gnawed the dry land,
the desolate wasteland by night.
4
5 they gnawed the dry land,
the desolate wasteland by night.
They were expelled from human society;
people shouted at them as if they were thieves.
6 people shouted at them as if they were thieves.
They are living on the slopes of the wadis,
among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
7 among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
They bray among the shrubs;
they huddle beneath the thistles.
8 they huddle beneath the thistles.
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10
11
12
13
14
15
Terrors(K) are turned loose against me;
they chase my dignity away like the wind,
and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.
they chase my dignity away like the wind,
and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.
Footnotes:
a.
Job 30:4: Or saltwort
b.
Job 30:11: Alt Hb tradition, LXX, Vg read His
c.
Job 30:12: Hb obscure
d.
Job 30:12: Lit stretch out
e.
Job 30:12: Lit and raise up their destructive paths
f.
Job 30:18: Hb obscure
g.
Job 30:24: Lit a heap of ruins
h.
Job 30:27: Lit My bowels boil
i.
Job 30:28: Or walk in sunless gloom
j.
Job 30:30: Lit blackens away from me