Job 30:20-26

Common English Bible

²⁰ I cry to you, and you don’t answer;
    I stand up, but you just look at me.
²¹ You are cruel to me,
    attack me with the strength of your hand.
²² You lift me to the wind and make me ride;
    you melt me in its roar.
²³ I know you will return me to death,
    the house appointed for all the living.

²⁴ Surely he won’t strike someone in ruins
        if in distress he cries out to him,
²⁵     if I didn’t weep for those who have a difficult day
        or my soul grieve for the needy;
²⁶     for I awaited good, but evil came;
        I expected light, but gloom arrived.