Job 30:20-26

Modern English Version

²⁰ “I cry unto You, but You do not hear me;
    I stand up, and You do not regard me.
²¹ You have become cruel to me;
    with Your strong hand You oppose me.
²² You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride on it;
    You dissolve my success.
²³ For I know that You will bring me to death,
    and to the house appointed for all living.

²⁴ “Surely He will not stretch out His hand to the grave,
    though they cry when He destroys it.
²⁵ Did I not weep for him who was in trouble?
    Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
²⁶ When I looked for good, then evil disaster came upon me;
    and when I waited for light, darkness came.