Job 30

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Job 30

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.

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“Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me?
Vigor had perished from them.

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“From want and famine they are gaunt
Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,

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Who pluck ^(a)mallow by the bushes,
And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.

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“They are driven from the community;
They shout against them as against a thief,

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So that they dwell in dreadful ^(b)valleys,
In holes of the earth and of the rocks.

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“Among the bushes they ^(c)cry out;
Under the nettles they are gathered together.

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“^(d)Fools, even ^(e)those without a name,
They were scourged from the land.

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“And now I have become their ^(f)^(B)taunt,
I have even become a ^(C)byword to them.

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“They abhor me and stand aloof from me,
And they do not ^(g)refrain from ^(D)spitting at my face.

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“Because ^(h)He has loosed ⁽ⁱ⁾His ^(j)bowstring and ^(E)afflicted me,
They have cast off ^(F)the bridle before me.

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“On the right hand their ^(k)brood arises;
They ^(G)thrust aside my feet ^(H)and build up against me their ways of destruction.

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“They ^(I)break up my path,
They profit ^(l)from my destruction;
No one restrains them.

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“As through a wide breach they come,
^(m)Amid the tempest they roll on.

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“^(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.

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“And now ^(L)my soul is poured out ^(p)within me;
Days of affliction have seized me.

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“At night it pierces ^(M)my bones ^(q)within me,
And my gnawing pains take no rest.

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“By a great force my garment is ^(N)distorted;
It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

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“He has cast me into the ^(O)mire,
And I have become like dust and ashes.

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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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“You have ^(r)become cruel to me;
With the might of Your hand You ^(Q)persecute me.

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“You ^(R)lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride;
And You dissolve me in a storm.

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“For I know that You ^(S)will bring me to death
And to the ^(T)house of meeting for all living.

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“Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand,
Or in his disaster therefore ^(U)cry out for help?

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“Have I not ^(V)wept for the ^(s)one whose life is hard?
Was not my soul grieved for ^(W)the needy?

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“When I ^(X)expected good, then evil came;
When I waited for light, ^(Y)then darkness came.

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“^(t)I am seething ^(Z)within and cannot relax;
Days of affliction confront me.

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“I go about ^(u)^(AA)mourning without comfort;
I stand up in the assembly and ^(AB)cry out for help.

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“I have become a brother to ^(AC)jackals
And a companion of ostriches.

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“My ^(AD)skin turns black ^(v)on me,
And my ^(AE)bones burn with ^(w)fever.

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“Therefore my ^(AF)harp ^(x)is turned to mourning,
And my flute to the sound of those who weep.

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:

A. Job 30:1: Job 12:4

B. Job 30:9: Job 12:4

C. Job 30:9: Job 17:6; Psalm 69:11; Lamentations 3:14; Lamentations 3:63

D. Job 30:10: Numbers 12:14; Deuteronomy 25:9; Job 17:6; Isaiah 50:6; Matthew 26:67

E. Job 30:11: Ruth 1:21; Psalm 88:7

F. Job 30:11: Psalm 32:9

G. Job 30:12: Psalm 140:4; Psalm 140:5

H. Job 30:12: Job 19:12

I. Job 30:13: Isaiah 3:12

J. Job 30:15: Job 3:25; Job 31:23; Psalm 55:3-5

K. Job 30:15: Job 7:9; Hosea 13:3

L. Job 30:16: 1 Samuel 1:15; Job 3:24; Psalm 22:14; Psalm 42:4; Isaiah 53:12

M. Job 30:17: Job 30:30

N. Job 30:18: Job 2:7

O. Job 30:19: Psalm 69:2; Psalm 69:14

P. Job 30:20: Job 19:7

Q. Job 30:21: Job 10:3; Job 16:9; Job 16:14; Job 19:6; Job 19:22

R. Job 30:22: Job 9:17; Job 27:21

S. Job 30:23: Job 9:22; Job 10:8

T. Job 30:23: Job 3:19

U. Job 30:24: Job 19:7

V. Job 30:25: Psalm 35:13; Psalm 35:14; Romans 12:15

W. Job 30:25: Job 24:4

X. Job 30:26: Job 3:25; Job 3:26; Jeremiah 8:15

Y. Job 30:26: Job 19:8

Z. Job 30:27: Lamentations 2:11

AA. Job 30:28: Job 30:31; Psalm 38:6; Psalm 42:9; Psalm 43:2

AB. Job 30:28: Job 19:7

AC. Job 30:29: Psalm 44:19; Micah 1:8

AD. Job 30:30: Job 2:7

AE. Job 30:30: Psalm 102:3

AF. Job 30:31: Isaiah 24:8