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Themes in Job 30
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Themes in Job 30

Job 30:1

But now they mock me,
men younger than I am,
whose fathers I would have refused to put
with my sheep dogs.

Job 30:2

What use to me was the strength of their hands?
Their vigor had left them.

Job 30:3

Emaciated from poverty and hunger,
they gnawed the dry land,
the desolate wasteland by night.

Job 30:4

They plucked mallow among the shrubs,
and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

Job 30:5

They were expelled from human society;
people shouted at them as if they were thieves.

Job 30:6

They are living on the slopes of the wadis,
among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

Job 30:7

They bray among the shrubs;
they huddle beneath the thistles.

Job 30:8

Foolish men, without even a name.
They were forced to leave the land.

Job 30:9

Now I am mocked by their songs;
I have become an object of scorn to them.

Job 30:10

They despise me and keep their distance from me;
they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

Job 30:11

Because God has loosened my bowstring and oppressed me,
they have cast off restraint in my presence.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:12

The rabble rise up at my right;
they trap my feet
and construct their siege ramp against me.

Job 30:13

They tear up my path;
they contribute to my destruction,
without anyone to help them.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:14

They advance as through a gaping breach;
they keep rolling in through the ruins.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:15

Terrors are turned loose against me;
they chase my dignity away like the wind,
and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.

Job 30:16

Now my life is poured out before my eyes,
and days of suffering have seized me.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:17

Night pierces my bones,
but my gnawing pains never rest.

Job 30:18

My clothing is distorted with great force;
He chokes me by the neck of my garment.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:19

He throws me into the mud,
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;
when I stand up, You merely look at me.

Job 30:21

You have turned against me with cruelty;
You harass me with Your strong hand.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:22

You lift me up on the wind and make me ride it;
You scatter me in the storm.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:23

Yes, I know that You will lead me to death—
the place appointed for all who live.

Job 30:24

Yet no one would stretch out his hand
against a ruined man
when he cries out to him for help
because of his distress.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:25

Have I not wept for those who have fallen on hard times?
Has my soul not grieved for the needy?

Job 30:26

But when I hoped for good, evil came;
when I looked for light, darkness came.
No Themes for this verse.

Job 30:27

I am churning within and cannot rest;
days of suffering confront me.

Job 30:28

I walk about blackened, but not by the sun.
I stood in the assembly and cried out for help.

Job 30:29

I have become a brother to jackals
and a companion of ostriches.

Job 30:30

My skin blackens and flakes off,
and my bones burn with fever.

Job 30:31

My lyre is used for mourning
and my flute for the sound of weeping.

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