Thematic Bible
Job 30:1 (show verse)
But, now, they who are of fewer days than I, have poured derision upon me; whose fathers I refused - to set with the dogs of my flock.
Job 30:2 (show verse)
Even the strength of their hands, wherefore was it mine? Upon them, vigour was lost;
Job 30:3 (show verse)
In want and hunger, they were lean, - who used to gnaw the dry ground, a dark night of desolation!
Job 30:4 (show verse)
Who used to pluck off the mallow by the bushes, with the root of the broom for their food;
Job 30:5 (show verse)
Out of the midst, were they driven, men shouted after them, as after a thief;
Job 30:6 (show verse)
In the fissures, of the ravines had they to dwell, in holes of dust and crags;
Job 30:7 (show verse)
Among the bushes, used they to shriek, Under the bramble, were they huddled together:
Job 30:8 (show verse)
Sons of the base, yea sons of the nameless, they were scourged out of the land.
Job 30:9 (show verse)
But, now, their song, have I become, Yea I serve them for a byword;
Job 30:10 (show verse)
They abhor me - have put themselves far from me, and, from my face, have not withheld - spittle!
Job 30:11 (show verse)
Because, my girdle, he had loosened and had humbled me, therefore, the bridle - in my presence, cast they off;
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:12 (show verse)
On my right hand, the young brood rose up, - My feet, they thrust aside, and cast up against me their earthworks of destruction;
Job 30:13 (show verse)
They brake up my path, - My engulfing ruin, they helped forward, unaided;
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:14 (show verse)
As through a wide breach, came they on, with a crashing noise, they rolled themselves along.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:15 (show verse)
There are turned upon me terrors, - Chased away as with a wind, is mine abundance, and, as a cloud, hath passed away my prosperity.
Job 30:16 (show verse)
Now, therefore, over myself, my soul poureth itself out, There seize me days of affliction:
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:17 (show verse)
Night, boreth, my bones, all over me, - and, my sinews, find no rest;
Job 30:18 (show verse)
Most effectually, is my skin disfigured, - Like the collar of my tunic, it girdeth me about:
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:19 (show verse)
He hath 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 out for help unto thee, and thou dost not answer, I stand still, and thou dost gaze at me;
Job 30:21 (show verse)
Thou art turned to become a cruel one unto me, With the might of thy hand, thou assailest me;
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:22 (show verse)
Thou liftest up me to the wind, thou carriest me away, and the storm maketh me faint;
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:23 (show verse)
For I know that, unto death, thou wilt bring me back, even unto the house of meeting for every one living.
Job 30:24 (show verse)
Only, against a heap of ruins, will one not thrust a hand! Surely, when one is in calamity - for that very reason, is there an outcry for help.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:25 (show verse)
Verily I wept, for him whose lot was hard, Grieved was my soul, for the needy.
Job 30:26 (show verse)
Surely, for good, I looked, but there came in evil, And I waited for light, but there came in darkness;
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:27 (show verse)
I boiled within me, and rested not, There confronted me - days of affliction;
Job 30:28 (show verse)
In gloom, I walked along, without sun, I arose - in the convocation, I cried out for help;
Job 30:29 (show verse)
A brother, became I to the brutes that howl, and a companion to the birds that screech:
Job 30:30 (show verse)
My skin, turned black, and peeled off me, and, my bones, burned with heat:
Job 30:31 (show verse)
Thus is attuned to mourning - my lyre, and my flute, to the noise of them who weep.