Thematic Bible

Job 30:1

“But now those younger than I mock me,
Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.

Job 30:2

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

Job 30:3

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

Job 30:4

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

Job 30:5

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

Job 30:6

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

Job 30:7

“Among the bushes they cry out;
Under the nettles they are gathered together.

Job 30:8

Fools, even those without a name,
They were scourged from the land.

Job 30:9

“And now I have become their taunt,
I have even become a byword to them.

Job 30:10

“They abhor me and stand aloof from me,
And they do not refrain from spitting at my face.

Job 30:11

“Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me,
They have cast off the bridle before me.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:12

“On the right hand their brood arises;
They thrust aside my feet and build up against me their ways of destruction.

Job 30:13

“They break up my path,
They profit from my destruction;
No one restrains them.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:14

“As through a wide breach they come,
Amid the tempest they roll on.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:15

Terrors are turned against me;
They pursue my honor as the wind,
And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.

Job 30:16

“And now my soul is poured out within me;
Days of affliction have seized me.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:17

“At night it pierces my bones within me,
And my gnawing pains take no rest.

Job 30:18

“By a great force my garment is distorted;
It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:19

“He has cast me into the mire,
And I have become like dust and ashes.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:20

“I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me;
I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.

Job 30:21

“You have become cruel to me;
With the might of Your hand You persecute me.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:22

“You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride;
And You dissolve me in a storm.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:23

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

Job 30:24

“Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand,
Or in his disaster therefore cry out for help?
No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:25

“Have I not wept for the one whose life is hard?
Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

Job 30:26

“When I expected good, then evil came;
When I waited for light, then darkness came.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:27

I am seething within and cannot relax;
Days of affliction confront me.

Job 30:28

“I go about mourning without comfort;
I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.

Job 30:29

“I have become a brother to jackals
And a companion of ostriches.

Job 30:30

“My skin turns black on me,
And my bones burn with fever.

Job 30:31

“Therefore my harp is turned to mourning,
And my flute to the sound of those who weep.