Job 30:20-26

Lexham English Bible

²⁰ I cry to you for help, but^[a] you do not answer me;
I stand, and you merely look at me.
²¹ You have turned cruel to me;
you persecute me with your hand’s might.
²² You lift me up to the wind—you make me ride it,
and you toss me about in the storm.
²³ Indeed, I know that you will bring me to death
and to the house of assembly for all the living.
²⁴ “Surely someone must not send a hand against the needy
when, in his misfortune, there is a cry of help for them.
²⁵ Have I not wept for the unfortunate,^[b]
and grieved myself over the poor?
²⁶ Indeed, I hoped for good, but evil came,
and I waited for light, but darkness came.