Book of Job, Chapter 30
Job 30 ASV - American Standard VersionChapter 30 of Job—American Standard Version (ASV)
- ¶ But now they that are younger than I have me in derision,
¶ Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. - ¶ Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me?
¶ Men in whom [a]ripe age is perished. - ¶ They are gaunt with want and famine;
¶ [b]They gnaw the dry ground, [c]in the gloom of wasteness and desolation. - ¶ They pluck salt-wort by the bushes;
¶ And the roots of the broom are [d]their food. - ¶ They are driven forth from the midst of men;
¶ They cry after them as after a thief; - ¶ So that they dwell in frightful valleys,
¶ In holes of the earth and of the rocks. - ¶ Among the bushes they bray;
¶ Under the [e]nettles they [f]are gathered together. - ¶ They are children of fools, yea, children of [g]base men;
¶ They [h]were scourged out of the land. - ¶ And now I am become their song,
¶ Yea, I am a byword unto them. - ¶ They abhor me, they stand aloof from me,
¶ And spare not to spit [i]in my face. - ¶ For he hath loosed [j]his cord, and afflicted me;
¶ And they have cast off the bridle before me. - ¶ Upon my right hand rise the [k]rabble;
¶ They thrust aside my feet,
¶ And they cast up against me their ways of destruction. - ¶ They [l]mar my path,
¶ They set forward my calamity,
¶ Even men that have no helper. - ¶ [m]As through a wide breach they come:
¶ In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me. - ¶ Terrors are turned upon me;
¶ [n]They chase [o]mine honor as the wind;
¶ And my welfare is passed away as a cloud. - ¶ And now my soul is poured out [p]within me;
¶ Days of affliction have taken hold upon me. - ¶ In the night season my bones are [q]pierced [r]in me,
¶ And [s]the pains that gnaw me take no rest. - ¶ By God’s great force is my garment disfigured;
¶ It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. - ¶ He hath cast me into the mire,
¶ And I am become like dust and ashes. - ¶ I cry unto thee, and thou dost not answer me:
¶ I stand up, and thou gazest at me. - ¶ Thou art turned to be cruel to me;
¶ With the might of thy hand thou persecutest me. - ¶ Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride upon it;
¶ And thou dissolvest me in the storm. - ¶ For I know that thou wilt bring me to death,
¶ And to [t]the house appointed for all living. - ¶ Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall?
¶ Or in his calamity therefore cry for help? - ¶ Did not I weep for him that was in trouble?
¶ Was not my soul grieved for the needy? - ¶ When I looked for good, then evil came;
¶ And when I waited for light, there came darkness. - ¶ My heart is troubled, and resteth not;
¶ Days of affliction are come upon me. - ¶ I go [u]mourning without the sun:
¶ I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help. - ¶ I am a brother to jackals,
¶ And a companion to ostriches. - ¶ My skin is black, and falleth from me,
¶ And my bones are burned with heat. - ¶ Therefore is my harp turned to mourning,
¶ And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
FOOTNOTES
- ^ Or, vigor
- ^ Or, They flee into the wilderness, into etc.
- ^ Or, which yesternight was. Or, on the eve of
- ^ Or, to warm them
- ^ Or, wild vetches
- ^ Or, stretch themselves
- ^ Hebrew men of no name.
- ^ Or, are outcasts from the land
- ^ Or, at the sight of me
- ^ According to another reading, my cord (or, bowstring).
- ^ Or, brood
- ^ Or, break up
- ^ Or, As a wide breaking in of waters
- ^ Or, Thou chasest
- ^ Or, my nobility
- ^ Hebrew upon.
- ^ Or, corroded and drop away from me
- ^ Hebrew from off.
- ^ Or, my sinews take etc.
- ^ Or, the house of meeting for etc.
- ^ Or, blackened, but not by the sun
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