Thematic Bible
Job 30:1 (show verse)
But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Job 30:2 (show verse)
Yea, the strength of their hands, to what should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.
Job 30:3 (show verse)
They are gaunt with want and famine. They gnaw the dry ground in the gloom of waste and desolation.
Job 30:4 (show verse)
They pluck mallows by the bushes, and the roots of the juniper are their food.
Job 30:5 (show verse)
They are driven forth from the midst [of men]. They cry out after them as after a thief,
Job 30:6 (show verse)
so that they dwell in frightful valleys, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
Job 30:7 (show verse)
Among the bushes they bray, under the nettles they are gathered together.
Job 30:8 (show verse)
[They are] sons of fools, yea, sons of base men. They were scourged out of the land.
Job 30:9 (show verse)
And now I have become their song, Yea, I am a byword to them.
Job 30:10 (show verse)
They abhor me. They stand aloof from me, and do not spare to spit in my face.
Job 30:11 (show verse)
For he has loosed his cord, and afflicted me. And they have cast off the bridle before me.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:12 (show verse)
Upon my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
Job 30:13 (show verse)
They mar my path. They set forward my calamity, [even] men who have no helper.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:14 (show verse)
As through a wide breach they come. In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me].
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:15 (show verse)
Terrors are turned upon me. They chase my honor as the wind, and my welfare is passed away as a cloud.
Job 30:16 (show verse)
And now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:17 (show verse)
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.
Job 30:18 (show verse)
By the great force my garment is disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:19 (show verse)
He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:20 (show verse)
I cry to thee, and thou do not answer me. I stand up, and thou gaze at me.
Job 30:21 (show verse)
Thou have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of thy hand thou persecute me.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:22 (show verse)
Thou lift me up to the wind. Thou cause me to ride [upon it], and thou disintegrate me in the storm.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:23 (show verse)
For I know that thou will bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Job 30:24 (show verse)
However does not a man stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:25 (show verse)
Did I not weep for him who was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
Job 30:26 (show verse)
When I looked for good, then evil came. And when I waited for light, there came darkness.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:27 (show verse)
My heart is troubled, and does not rest. Days of affliction have come upon me.
Job 30:28 (show verse)
I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
Job 30:29 (show verse)
I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
Job 30:30 (show verse)
My skin is black, [and falls] from me. And my bones are burned with heat.
Job 30:31 (show verse)
Therefore my harp has [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.