1 But now, they that are mine inferiors and younger than I, have me in derision; yea even they, whose fathers I would have thought scorn to have set with the dogs of my cattle.
1 “But now those younger than I (A)mock me,Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.
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.
1 But now they mock(A) me,men younger than I am,whose fathers I would have refused to putwith my sheep dogs.
1 "But now they mock me; men who are far younger than I, whose fathers I would have hated to entrust with my own sheep dogs.
2 The power and strength of their hands might do me no good, and as for their age, it is spent and past away without any profit.
2 “Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me?Vigor had perished from them.
2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
2 What use to me was the strength of their hands?Their vigor had left them.
2 Furthermore, what could I have gained from men whose strength is gone?
3 For very misery and hunger, they went about in the wilderness like wretches and beggars,
3 “From want and famine they are gauntWho gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,
3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
3 Emaciated from poverty and hunger,they gnawed the dry land,the desolate wasteland by night.
3 Unproductive due to poverty and hunger, they could only scratch in parched soil, devastated and desolated.
5 And when they were driven forth, men cried after them, as it had been after a thief.
5 “They are driven from the community;They shout against them as against a thief,
5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
5 They were expelled from human society;people shouted at them as if they were thieves.
5 Driven away from human company, they were shouted at as though they were thieves.
6 Their dwelling was beside foul brooks, yea in the caves and dens of the earth.
6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
6 They are living on the slopes of the wadis,among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
6 They lived in the most dangerous of ravines, in holes in the ground, and among rocks.
7 Upon the dry heath went they about crying, and under the thorns they gathered themselves together.
7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
7 They bray among the shrubs;they huddle beneath the thistles.
7 They bray like donkeys among the bushes and huddle together under the desert weeds.
11 for the LORD hath opened his quiver: he hath hit me, and put a bridle in my mouth.
11 “Because (h)He has loosed (i)His (j)bowstring and (E)afflicted me,They have cast off (F)the bridle before me.
11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
11 Because God has loosened my(b) bowstring and oppressed me,they have cast off restraint in my presence.(G)
11 But God has loosened his cord and afflicted me; so they've cast off all restraints in my presence.
12 Upon my right hand they rose together against me; they have hurt my feet, made a way to destroy me,
12 “On the right hand their (k)brood arises;They (G)thrust aside my feet (H)and build up against me their ways of destruction.
12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
12 The rabble(c) rise up at my right;they trap(d) my feetand construct their siege ramp(e) against me.(H)
12 "A wretched crowd ambushes me to my right; they trip my feet; they build up their path of calamity for me.
14 They fell upon me, as it had been the breaking in of waters, and came in by heaps to destroy me.
14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
14 They come like those who breach through a wall; as everything crashes around me they'll roll on and on!
15 "Fearfulness is turned against me. Mine honour vanisheth away more swiftly than wind, and my prosperity departeth hence like as it were a cloud.
15 “(J)Terrors are turned against me;They pursue my (n)honor as the wind,And my (o)prosperity has passed away (K)like a cloud.
15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
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.
15 My greatest fears have overcome me; my honor is assaulted as though by a wind storm; my prosperity evaporates like a morning cloud."
18 With all their power have they changed my garment, and girded me therewith, as it were with a coat.
18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
18 My clothes are disheveled by his forceful treatment of me; he restricts my movement like the collar of my cloak.
20 When I cry unto thee, thou doest not hear me: and though I stand before thee, yet thou regardest me not.
20 “I (P)cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me;I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.
20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
20 I cry for help to you, but you won't answer me; I stand still, but you only look at me.
22 In times past thou didst set me up on high, as it were above the wind, but now hast thou given me a very sore fall.
22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
22 you carried me off in a wind storm, making me ride on it while you toss me about as the storm roars around me.
23 Sure I am, that thou wilt deliver me unto death: whereas a lodging is prepared for all men living.
23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
23 I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living."
24 Now use not men to do violence unto them, that are destroyed already; but where hurt is done, there use they to help.
24 “Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand,Or in his disaster therefore (U)cry out for help?
24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
24 Yet no one would stretch out his handagainst a ruined man(g)when he cries out to him for helpbecause of his distress.(S)
24 "Surely he won't stretch his hand against the needy, will he, especially if they cry to him in their calamity?
25 Did not I weep in the time of trouble? Had not my soul compassion upon the poor?
25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
25 Have I not wept for those who have fallen on hard times?Has my soul not grieved for the needy?(T)
25 Haven't I wept for the one who is going through hard times? Haven't I grieved for the needy?
26 Yet nevertheless, whereas I looked for good, evil happened unto me; and whereas I waited for light, there came darkness.
26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
26 I have hoped for good, but evil came instead; I have hoped for light, but darkness came.
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