Thematic Bible
Job 30:1 (show verse)
But now those that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
Job 30:2 (show verse)
For, unto what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom time was lost?
Job 30:3 (show verse)
For want and famine they walked alone; fleeing into solitude, to the dark place, desolate and waste.
Job 30:4 (show verse)
Who cut up mallows among the bushes and juniper roots for their food.
Job 30:5 (show verse)
They were driven forth from among men (they cried after them as after a thief).
Job 30:6 (show verse)
They dwelt in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
Job 30:7 (show verse)
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
Job 30:8 (show verse)
They were sons of fools and men without names; they were lower than the earth.
Job 30:9 (show verse)
And now I am their song, and I am their byword.
Job 30:10 (show verse)
They abhor me, they distance themselves from me, and do not spare to spit in my face.
Job 30:11 (show verse)
Because God has loosed my cord and afflicted me, they have also gone out of control before my face.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:12 (show verse)
Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Job 30:13 (show verse)
They cast down my path, they took advantage of my calamity, against them there was no helper.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:14 (show verse)
They came in as through a wide breach; they were stirred up because of my calamity.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:15 (show verse)
They have loosed terrors upon me; they fought my will as the wind and my saving health as a cloud that passes.
Job 30:16 (show verse)
And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:17 (show verse)
My bones pierce me in the night, and my sinews take no rest.
Job 30:18 (show verse)
By the great force of my disease my garment is changed; 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 unto thee, and thou dost not hear me; I present myself, and thou regardest me not.
Job 30:21 (show verse)
Thou art become cruel to me; with the strength of thy hand thou dost hate me.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:22 (show verse)
Thou didst lift me up and cause me to ride upon the wind, and didst dissolve my being.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:23 (show verse)
For I know that thou dost conduct me unto death and to the house appointed for all living.
Job 30:24 (show verse)
But he will not stretch out his hand against the grave; do those who are buried cry out when he destroys them?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:25 (show verse)
Did I not weep for the one that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
Job 30:26 (show verse)
When I expected good, then evil came unto me; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:27 (show verse)
My bowels boil and do not rest; the days of affliction came upon me.
Job 30:28 (show verse)
I went about darkened, but not by the sun; I stood up and cried out in the congregation.
Job 30:29 (show verse)
I have become a brother to dragons and a companion to owls.
Job 30:30 (show verse)
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Job 30:31 (show verse)
My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.