Job’s Present State Is Humiliating
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“But now those younger than I (A)mock me,
Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.
2 Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.
“Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me?
Vigor had perished from them.
3 Vigor had perished from them.
“From want and famine they are gaunt
Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,
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5 Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,
“They are driven from the community;
They shout against them as against a thief,
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They shout against them as against a thief,
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“I (P)cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me;
I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.
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I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.
Footnotes:
a.
Job 30:4: ['I.e. plant of the salt marshes']
b.
Job 30:6: ['Or ', wadis]
c.
Job 30:7: ['Or ', bray]
d.
Job 30:8: ['Lit ', Sons of fools]
e.
Job 30:8: ['Lit ', sons]
f.
Job 30:9: ['Lit ', song]
g.
Job 30:10: ['Lit ', withhold spit from my face]
h.
Job 30:11: ['Or ', they]
i.
Job 30:11: ['Some mss read ', my]
j.
Job 30:11: ['Or ', cord]
k.
Job 30:12: ['Possibly ', sprout, ' or ', offspring]
l.
Job 30:13: ['Lit ', for]
m.
Job 30:14: ['Lit ', Under]
n.
Job 30:15: ['Or ', nobility]
o.
Job 30:15: ['Or ', welfare]
p.
Job 30:16: ['Lit ', upon]
q.
Job 30:17: ['Lit ', from upon]
r.
Job 30:21: ['Lit ', turned to be]
s.
Job 30:25: ['Lit ', hard of day]
t.
Job 30:27: ['Lit ', My inward parts are boiling]
u.
Job 30:28: ['Or ', blackened, but not by the heat of the sun]
v.
Job 30:30: ['Lit ', from upon]
w.
Job 30:30: ['Lit ', heat]
x.
Job 30:31: ['Lit ', becomes]
Cross references:
F.
Job 30:11:
Psalm 32:9
I.
Job 30:13:
Isaiah 3:12
AE.
Job 30:30:
Psalm 102:3
AF.
Job 30:31:
Isaiah 24:8