Thematic Bible
Job 30:1 (show verse)
"But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.
Job 30:2 (show verse)
Moreover, the strength of their hands -- what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished;
Job 30:3 (show verse)
gaunt with want and hunger, they would gnaw the parched land, in former time desolate and waste.
Job 30:4 (show verse)
By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.
Job 30:5 (show verse)
They were banished from the community -- people shouted at them like they would shout at thieves --
Job 30:6 (show verse)
so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.
Job 30:7 (show verse)
They brayed like animals among the bushes and were huddled together under the nettles.
Job 30:8 (show verse)
Sons of senseless and nameless people, they were driven out of the land with whips.
Job 30:9 (show verse)
"And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.
Job 30:10 (show verse)
They detest me and maintain their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
Job 30:11 (show verse)
Because God has untied my tent cord and afflicted me, people throw off all restraint in my presence.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:12 (show verse)
On my right the young rabble rise up; they drive me from place to place, and build up siege ramps against me.
Job 30:13 (show verse)
They destroy my path; they succeed in destroying me without anyone assisting them.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:14 (show verse)
They come in as through a wide breach; amid the crash they come rolling in.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:15 (show verse)
Terrors are turned loose on me; they drive away my honor like the wind, and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.
Job 30:16 (show verse)
"And now my soul pours itself out within me; days of suffering take hold of me.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:17 (show verse)
Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.
Job 30:18 (show verse)
With great power God grasps my clothing; he binds me like the collar of my tunic.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:19 (show verse)
He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:20 (show verse)
I cry out to you, but you do not answer me; I stand up, and you only look at me.
Job 30:21 (show verse)
You have become cruel to me; with the strength of your hand you attack me.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:22 (show verse)
You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:23 (show verse)
I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.
Job 30:24 (show verse)
"Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:25 (show verse)
Have I not wept for the unfortunate? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
Job 30:26 (show verse)
But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:27 (show verse)
My heart is in turmoil unceasingly; the days of my affliction confront me.
Job 30:28 (show verse)
I go about blackened, but not by the sun; in the assembly I stand up and cry for help.
Job 30:29 (show verse)
I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.
Job 30:30 (show verse)
My skin has turned dark on me; my body is hot with fever.
Job 30:31 (show verse)
My harp is used for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.