noyes - 30

noyes@Job:30:1 @ But now they that are younger than I hold me in derision, Whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

noyes@Job:30:2 @ Of what use to me would be even the strength of their hands, To whom old age is lost?

noyes@Job:30:3 @ By want and hunger they are famished; They gnaw the dry desert, The darkness of desolate wastes.

noyes@Job:30:4 @ They gather purslain among the bushes, And the root of the broom is their bread.

noyes@Job:30:5 @ They are driven from the society of men; There is a cry after them as after a thief.

noyes@Job:30:6 @ They dwell in gloomy valleys, In caves of the earth and in rocks.

noyes@Job:30:7 @ They bray among the bushes; Under the brambles are they stretched out.

noyes@Job:30:8 @ An impious and lowborn race, They are beaten out of the land.

noyes@Job:30:9 @ And now I am become their song; Yea, I am their byword!

noyes@Job:30:10 @ They abhor me, they stand aloof from me; They forbear not to spit before my face.

noyes@Job:30:11 @ Yea, they let loose the reins, and humble me; They cast off the bridle before me.

noyes@Job:30:12 @ On my right hand riseth up the brood; They thrust away my feet; They cast up against me their destructive ways.

noyes@Job:30:13 @ They break up my path; They hasten my fall,They who have no helper!

noyes@Job:30:14 @ They come upon me as through a wide breach; Through the ruins they rush in upon me.

noyes@Job:30:15 @ Terrors are turned against me; They pursue my prosperity like the wind, And my welfare passeth away like a cloud.

noyes@Job:30:16 @ And now my soul poureth itself out upon me; Days of affliction have taken hold of me.

noyes@Job:30:17 @ By night my bones are pierced; they are torn from me, And my gnawers take no rest.

noyes@Job:30:18 @ Through the violence of my disease is my garment changed; It bindeth me about like the collar of my tunic.

noyes@Job:30:19 @ He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

noyes@Job:30:20 @ I call upon Thee, but thou dost not hear me; I stand up before thee, but thou regardest me not.

noyes@Job:30:21 @ Thou art become cruel to me; With thy strong hand dost thou lie in wait for me.

noyes@Job:30:22 @ Thou liftest me up, and causest me to ride upon the wind; Thou meltest me away in the storm.

noyes@Job:30:23 @ I know that thou wilt bring me to death, To the place of assembly for all the living.

noyes@Job:30:24 @ When He stretcheth out his hand, prayer availeth nothing; When He bringeth destruction, vain is the cry for help.

noyes@Job:30:25 @ Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

noyes@Job:30:26 @ But when I looked for good, then evil came; When I looked for light, then came darkness.

noyes@Job:30:27 @ My bowels boil, and have no rest; Days of anguish have come upon me.

noyes@Job:30:28 @ I am black, but not by the sun; I stand up, and utter my cries in the congregation.

noyes@Job:30:29 @ I am become a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.

noyes@Job:30:30 @ My skin is black, and falleth from me, And my bones burn with heat.

noyes@Job:30:31 @ My harp also is turned to mourning, And my pipe to notes of grief.

Job 30