Job 30:16-31
New International Version
16 “And now my life ebbs away;(A)
days of suffering grip me.(B)
17 Night pierces my bones;
my gnawing pains never rest.(C)
18 In his great power(D) God becomes like clothing to me[a];
he binds me like the neck of my garment.
19 He throws me into the mud,(E)
and I am reduced to dust and ashes.(F)
20 “I cry out to you,(G) God, but you do not answer;(H)
I stand up, but you merely look at me.
21 You turn on me ruthlessly;(I)
with the might of your hand(J) you attack me.(K)
22 You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;(L)
you toss me about in the storm.(M)
23 I know you will bring me down to death,(N)
to the place appointed for all the living.(O)
24 “Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man(P)
when he cries for help in his distress.(Q)
25 Have I not wept for those in trouble?(R)
Has not my soul grieved for the poor?(S)
26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;
when I looked for light, then came darkness.(T)
27 The churning inside me never stops;(U)
days of suffering confront me.(V)
28 I go about blackened,(W) but not by the sun;
I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.(X)
29 I have become a brother of jackals,(Y)
a companion of owls.(Z)
30 My skin grows black(AA) and peels;(AB)
my body burns with fever.(AC)
31 My lyre is tuned to mourning,(AD)
and my pipe(AE) to the sound of wailing.
Footnotes
- Job 30:18 Hebrew; Septuagint power he grasps my clothing
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