Job 30:1-15

Lexham English Bible

30 “But now those younger than I, as far as days, laugh at me,
whose fathers I rejected for setting with the dogs of my sheep and goats.
² Moreover, what use to me is the strength of their hands?^[a]
With them, vigor is destroyed.
³ Through want and through barren hunger
they are gnawing in the dry region in the darkness of desolation and waste.
⁴ They are picking salt herbs, the leaves of bushes,
and the roots of broom trees to warm themselves.
⁵ They were driven out from fellow people;
they shout at them as at a^[b] thief,
⁶ so that they dwell^[c]
in holes of the ground and in the rocks.
⁷ They bray among the bushes;
they are gathered under the nettles.
⁸ A senseless crowd,^[d] yes, a disreputable brood,^[e]
they were cast out from the land.
⁹ “But now I am their mocking song,
and I have become a byword for them.
¹⁰ They abhor me; they keep aloof from me,
and they do not withhold spit from my face
¹¹ because he has loosened his bowstring and humbled me,
and they have thrown off restraint in my presence.^[f]
12 On the right hand the brood rises^[g] up;
they put me to flight,^[h]
and they build up their siege ramps^[i] against me.
¹³ They destroy my path;
they promote my destruction;
they have no helper.
¹⁴ As through a wide breach they come;
amid a crash they rush on.
¹⁵ Terrors are turned upon me;
my honor is pursued as by the wind,
and my hope of deliverance passed by like a cloud.