Job:30

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* But now those who 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 , to what should it profit me ? Men in whom ripe age is perished . * They are gaunt with want and famine . They gnaw the dry ground in the gloom of waste and desolation . * They pluck mallows by the bushes , and the roots of the juniper are their food . * They are driven forth from the midst [of men ]. They cry out 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 nettles they are gathered together . * [They are ] sons of fools , yea , sons of base men . They were scourged out of the land . * And now I have become their song , Yea , I am a byword to them . * They abhor me . They stand aloof from me , and do not spare to spit in my face . * For he has loosed his cord , and afflicted me . And they have cast off the bridle before me . * Upon my right hand rise the rabble . They thrust aside my feet , and they cast up against me their ways of destruction . * They mar my path . They set forward my calamity , [even ] men who have no helper . * As through a wide breach they come . In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me ]. * Terrors are turned upon me . They chase my honor as the wind , and my welfare is passed away as a cloud . * And now my soul is poured out within me . Days of affliction have taken hold upon me . * In the night season my bones are pierced in me , and the [pains ] that gnaw me take no rest . * By the great force my garment is disfigured . It binds me about as the collar of my coat . * He has cast me into the mire , and I have become like dust and ashes . * I cry to thee , and thou do not answer me . I stand up , and thou gaze at me . * Thou have turned to be cruel to me . With the might of thy hand thou persecute me . * Thou lift me up to the wind . Thou cause me to ride [upon it ], and thou disintegrate me in the storm . * For I know that thou will bring me to death , and to the house appointed for all living . * However does not a man stretch out the hand in his fall ? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help ? * Did I not weep for him who 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 does not rest . Days of affliction have come upon me . * I go 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 falls ] from me . And my bones are burned with heat . * Therefore my harp has [turned ] to mourning , and my pipe into the voice of those who weep .

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