Thematic Bible
Job 30:1 (show verse)
"But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Job 30:2 (show verse)
What could I gain from the strength of their hands, men whose vigor is gone?
Job 30:3 (show verse)
Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation;
Job 30:4 (show verse)
they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes, and the roots of the broom tree for their food.
Job 30:5 (show verse)
They are driven out from human company; they shout after them as after a thief.
Job 30:6 (show verse)
In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
Job 30:7 (show verse)
Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together.
Job 30:8 (show verse)
A senseless, a nameless brood, they have been whipped out of the land.
Job 30:9 (show verse)
"And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them.
Job 30:10 (show verse)
They abhor me; they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me.
Job 30:11 (show verse)
Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:12 (show verse)
On my right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they cast up against me their ways of destruction.
Job 30:13 (show verse)
They break up my path; they promote my calamity; they need no one to help them.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:14 (show verse)
As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:15 (show verse)
Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
Job 30:16 (show verse)
"And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:17 (show verse)
The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
Job 30:18 (show verse)
With great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:19 (show verse)
God 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 you for help and you do not answer me; I stand, and you only look at me.
Job 30:21 (show verse)
You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:22 (show verse)
You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it, and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:23 (show verse)
For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living.
Job 30:24 (show verse)
"Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:25 (show verse)
Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
Job 30:26 (show verse)
But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:27 (show verse)
My inward parts are in turmoil and never still; days of affliction come to meet me.
Job 30:28 (show verse)
I go about darkened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
Job 30:29 (show verse)
I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches.
Job 30:30 (show verse)
My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.
Job 30:31 (show verse)
My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.