Thematic Bible
Job 30:1 (show verse)
"But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
Dog » Shepherd dogs
Dogs » When domesticated » Employed in watching flocks
Job » Loss of friends
Mocking » The tormentors of job mock
Old age » Disrespect for pleasure-seeking » Prodigality
Persecution » Instances of » Of job
Scoffing » Instances of » Enemies of job
Scorning and mocking » Exemplified » Enemies of job
Sheep » Flocks of » Guarded by dogs
Shepherd » Dogs of
sins of Youth » Special temptations of pleasure-seeking » Prodigality
Dogs » When domesticated » Employed in watching flocks
Job » Loss of friends
Mocking » The tormentors of job mock
Old age » Disrespect for pleasure-seeking » Prodigality
Persecution » Instances of » Of job
Scoffing » Instances of » Enemies of job
Scorning and mocking » Exemplified » Enemies of job
Sheep » Flocks of » Guarded by dogs
Shepherd » Dogs of
sins of Youth » Special temptations of pleasure-seeking » Prodigality
Job 30:2 (show verse)
Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
Job 30:3 (show verse)
They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
Job 30:4 (show verse)
They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food.
Job 30:5 (show verse)
They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;
Job 30:6 (show verse)
So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
Job 30:7 (show verse)
Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they are gathered together.
Job 30:8 (show verse)
They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land.
Job 30:9 (show verse)
"Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
Job 30:10 (show verse)
They abhor me, they keep their distance from me, and do not hesitate to spit in my face.
Job 30:11 (show verse)
For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:12 (show verse)
On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
Job 30:13 (show verse)
They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help.
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 in.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:15 (show verse)
Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
Job 30:16 (show verse)
"Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on 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 great force is my garment 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. I have become like dust and ashes.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:20 (show verse)
I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.
Job 30:21 (show verse)
You have turned to be 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 to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:23 (show verse)
For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living.
Job 30:24 (show verse)
"However doesn't one stretch out a 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? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?
Job 30:26 (show verse)
When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:27 (show verse)
My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on 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 grows black and peels from me. 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.