Job 30:24-31 - Job Says: I Am Being Punished By God

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“However, does not one falling in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand?
Or in his disaster [will he not] therefore cry out for help?
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“Did I not weep for one whose life was hard and filled with trouble?
Was not my heart grieved for the needy?
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“When I expected good, then came evil [to me];
And when I waited for light, then came darkness.
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“I am seething within and my heart is troubled and cannot rest;
Days of affliction come to meet me.
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“I go about mourning without comfort [my skin blackened by disease, not by the heat of the sun];
I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.
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“I am a brother to [howling] jackals,
And a companion to ostriches [which scream dismally].
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“My skin falls from me in blackened flakes,
And my bones are burned with fever.
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“Therefore my lyre (harp) is used for [the sound of] mourning,
And my flute for the [sound of the] voices of those who weep.