Job 30:9-15
The Message
9-15 “But now I’m the one they’re after,
mistreating me, taunting and mocking.
They abhor me, they abuse me.
How dare those scoundrels—they spit in my face!
Now that God has undone me and left me in a heap,
they hold nothing back. Anything goes.
They come at me from my blind side,
trip me up, then jump on me while I’m down.
They throw every kind of obstacle in my path,
determined to ruin me—
and no one lifts a finger to help me!
They violate my broken body,
trample through the rubble of my ruined life.
Terrors assault me—
my dignity in shreds,
salvation up in smoke.
Job 30:9-15
New International Version
9 “And now those young men mock me(A) in song;(B)
I have become a byword(C) among them.
10 They detest me(D) and keep their distance;
they do not hesitate to spit in my face.(E)
11 Now that God has unstrung my bow(F) and afflicted me,(G)
they throw off restraint(H) in my presence.
12 On my right(I) the tribe[a] attacks;
they lay snares(J) for my feet,(K)
they build their siege ramps against me.(L)
13 They break up my road;(M)
they succeed in destroying me.(N)
‘No one can help him,’ they say.
14 They advance as through a gaping breach;(O)
amid the ruins they come rolling in.
15 Terrors(P) overwhelm me;(Q)
my dignity is driven away as by the wind,
my safety vanishes like a cloud.(R)
Footnotes
- Job 30:12 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
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