Job 30:12-27

New International Version

¹² On my right^(A) the tribe^[a] attacks;
    they lay snares^(B) for my feet,^(C)
    they build their siege ramps against me.^(D)
13 They break up my road;^(E)
    they succeed in destroying me.^(F)
    ‘No one can help him,’ they say.
¹⁴ They advance as through a gaping breach;^(G)
    amid the ruins they come rolling in.
¹⁵ Terrors^(H) overwhelm me;^(I)
    my dignity is driven away as by the wind,
    my safety vanishes like a cloud.^(J)

¹⁶ “And now my life ebbs away;^(K)
    days of suffering grip me.^(L)
17 Night pierces my bones;
    my gnawing pains never rest.^(M)
18 In his great power^(N) God becomes like clothing to me^[b];
    he binds me like the neck of my garment.
¹⁹ He throws me into the mud,^(O)
    and I am reduced to dust and ashes.^(P)

²⁰ “I cry out to you,^(Q) God, but you do not answer;^(R)
    I stand up, but you merely look at me.
²¹ You turn on me ruthlessly;^(S)
    with the might of your hand^(T) you attack me.^(U)
22 You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;^(V)
    you toss me about in the storm.^(W)
23 I know you will bring me down to death,^(X)
    to the place appointed for all the living.^(Y)

²⁴ “Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man^(Z)
    when he cries for help in his distress.^(AA)
25 Have I not wept for those in trouble?^(AB)
    Has not my soul grieved for the poor?^(AC)
26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;
    when I looked for light, then came darkness.^(AD)
27 The churning inside me never stops;^(AE)
    days of suffering confront me.^(AF)