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

²⁴ Yet no one would stretch out his hand
against a ruined man
when he cries out to him for help
because of his distress.
²⁵ Have I not wept for those who have fallen on hard times?
Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
²⁶ But when I hoped for good, evil came;
when I looked for light, darkness came.
²⁷ I am churning within and cannot rest;
days of suffering confront me.
²⁸ I walk about blackened, but not by the sun.
I stood in the assembly and cried out for help.
²⁹ I have become a brother to jackals
and a companion of ostriches.
³⁰ My skin blackens and flakes off,
and my bones burn with fever.
³¹ My lyre is used for mourning
and my flute for the sound of weeping.

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