Job 30:24-31
The Message
24-31 “What did I do to deserve this?
Did I ever hit anyone who was calling for help?
Haven’t I wept for those who live a hard life,
been heartsick over the lot of the poor?
But where did it get me?
I expected good but evil showed up.
I looked for light but darkness fell.
My stomach’s in a constant churning, never settles down.
Each day confronts me with more suffering.
I walk under a black cloud. The sun is gone.
I stand in the congregation and protest.
I howl with the jackals,
I hoot with the owls.
I’m black-and-blue all over,
burning up with fever.
My fiddle plays nothing but the blues;
my mouth harp wails laments.”
Job 30:24-31
New International Version
24 “Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man(A)
when he cries for help in his distress.(B)
25 Have I not wept for those in trouble?(C)
Has not my soul grieved for the poor?(D)
26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;
when I looked for light, then came darkness.(E)
27 The churning inside me never stops;(F)
days of suffering confront me.(G)
28 I go about blackened,(H) but not by the sun;
I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.(I)
29 I have become a brother of jackals,(J)
a companion of owls.(K)
30 My skin grows black(L) and peels;(M)
my body burns with fever.(N)
31 My lyre is tuned to mourning,(O)
and my pipe(P) to the sound of wailing.
Job 30:24-31
The Message
24-31 “What did I do to deserve this?
Did I ever hit anyone who was calling for help?
Haven’t I wept for those who live a hard life,
been heartsick over the lot of the poor?
But where did it get me?
I expected good but evil showed up.
I looked for light but darkness fell.
My stomach’s in a constant churning, never settles down.
Each day confronts me with more suffering.
I walk under a black cloud. The sun is gone.
I stand in the congregation and protest.
I howl with the jackals,
I hoot with the owls.
I’m black-and-blue all over,
burning up with fever.
My fiddle plays nothing but the blues;
my mouth harp wails laments.”
Job 30:24-26
New International Version
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