# Job 30 [[Job 29|←]] • [[Job 31|→]] --- ### 1 But now younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. ### 2 Yea, whereto the strength of their hands me, in whom old age was perished? ### 3 For want and famine solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. ### 4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots their meat. ### 5 They were driven forth from among (they cried after them as a thief;) ### 6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, caves of the earth, and the rocks. ### 7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. ### 8 children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. ### 9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. ### 10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. ### 11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. ### 12 Upon right rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. ### 13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. ### 14 They came as a wide breaking in in the desolation they rolled themselves ### 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. ### 16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. ### 17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. ### 18 By the great force is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. ### 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. ### 20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me ### 21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. ### 22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride and dissolvest my substance. ### 23 For I know thou wilt bring me death, and the house appointed for all living. ### 24 Howbeit he will not stretch out hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. ### 25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was my soul grieved for the poor? ### 26 When I looked for good, then evil came and when I waited for light, there came darkness. ### 27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. ### 28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, I cried in the congregation. ### 29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. ### 30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. ### 31 My harp also is to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.