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Job 30
1599 Geneva Bible
Job 30
1599 Geneva Bible
30 1 Job complaineth that he is contemned of the most contemptible, 11, 21 because of his adversity and affliction. 23 Death is the house of all flesh.
1 But now they that are younger than I, [a]mock me: yea, they whose fathers I have refused to set with the [b]dogs of my flocks.
2 For whereto should the strength of their hands have served me, seeing age [c]perished in them?
3 For poverty and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wilderness, which is dark, desolate and waste.
4 They cut up [d]nettles by the bushes, and the juniper roots was their meat.
5 They were [e]chased forth from among men: they shouted at them, as at a thief.
6 Therefore they dwelt in the clefts of rivers, in the holes of the earth and rocks.
7 They roared among the bushes, and under the thistles they gathered themselves.
8 They were the children of fools, and the children of villains, which were more vile than the earth.
9 And now am I their [f]song, and I am their talk.
10 They abhor me, and flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
11 Because that God hath loosed my [g]cord and humbled me, [h]they have loosed the bridle before me.
12 The youth rise up at my right hand: they have pushed my feet, and have trode on me as on the [i]paths of their destruction.
13 They have destroyed my paths: they took pleasure at my calamity, they had no [j]help.
14 They came as a great breach of waters, and [k]under this calamity they come on heaps.
15 Fear is turned upon me: and they pursue my soul as the wind, and mine health passeth away as a cloud.
16 Therefore my soul is now [l]poured out upon me, and the days of affliction have taken hold on me.
17 [m]It pierceth my bones in the night, and my sinews take no rest.
18 For the great vehemency is my garments changed, which compasseth me about, as the collar of my coat.
19 [n]He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like ashes and dust.
20 When I cry unto thee, thou dost not hear me, neither regardest me, when I stand up.
21 Thou turnest thyself [o]cruelly against me, and art enemy unto me with the strength of thine hand.
22 Thou takest me up and causest me to ride upon the [p]wind, and makest my [q]strength to fail.
23 Surely I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all the living.
24 Doubtless none can stretch his hand [r]unto the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
25 Did not I weep with him that was in trouble? was not my soul in heaviness for the poor?
26 Yet when I looked for good, [s]evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
27 My bowels did boil without rest: for the days of affliction are come upon me.
28 I went mourning [t]without sun: I stood up in the Congregation [u]and cried.
29 I am a brother to the [v]Dragons, and a companion to the Ostriches.
30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burnt with [w]heat.
31 Therefore mine harp is turned to mourning, and mine organs into the voice of them that weep.
Footnotes
- Job 30:1 That is, mine estate is changed, and whereas before the ancient men were glad to do me reverence, the young men now contemn me.
- Job 30:1 Meaning to be my shepherds, or to keep my dogs.
- Job 30:2 That is, their fathers died for famine before they came to age.
- Job 30:4 Or, mallows.
- Job 30:5 Job showeth that these that mocked him in his affliction, were like to their fathers, wicked and lewd fellows, such as he here describeth.
- Job 30:9 They make songs of me, and mock at my misery.
- Job 30:11 God hath taken from me the force, credit, and authority wherewith I kept them in subjection.
- Job 30:11 He said that the young men when they saw him, hid themselves, as Job 29:8, and now in his misery they were impudent and licentious.
- Job 30:12 That is, they sought by all means how they might destroy me.
- Job 30:13 They need none to help them.
- Job 30:14 By my calamity they took an occasion against me.
- Job 30:16 My life faileth me, and I am as half dead.
- Job 30:17 Meaning, sorrow.
- Job 30:19 That is, God hath brought me into contempt.
- Job 30:21 He speaketh not thus to accuse God, but to declare the vehemency of his affliction, whereby he was carried beside himself.
- Job 30:22 He compareth his afflictions to a tempest or whirlwind.
- Job 30:22 Or, wisdom, or law.
- Job 30:24 None can deliver me thence, though they lament at my death.
- Job 30:26 Instead of comforting they mocked at me.
- Job 30:28 Not delighting in any worldly thing, no not so much as in the use of the Sun.
- Job 30:28 Lamenting them that were in affliction, and moving others to pity them.
- Job 30:29 I am like the wild beasts that desire most solitary places.
- Job 30:30 With the heat of affliction.
Job 30
Wycliffe Bible
Job 30
Wycliffe Bible
30 But now younger men in time scorn me, whose fathers I deigned[a] not to set with the dogs of my flock. (But now men younger than me scorn me, men whose fathers I would not deign to put with the dogs of my flock.)
2 Of which men the strength of their hands was for nought to me, and they were guessed unworthy to that life (yea, they were too weak to be of any use to me).
3 They were barren for neediness and hunger; they gnawed in (the) wilderness, and were (made) pale for poverty and wretchedness;
4 and they ate herbs, and the rinds of trees; and the root of junipers was their meat. (and they ate grass, and the bark of trees; and juniper roots were their food.)
5 The which men ravished these things from great valleys; and when(ever) they had found any of all these things, they ran with (a) cry to them. (They were driven out from among men, who cried after them, as if they were thieves.)
6 They dwelled in deserts of strands, and in caves of [the] earth, either on gravel. (They lived in dried up riverbeds, and in caves of the earth, and on rocks.)
7 Which were glad among such things (And they were happy there), and they areckoned (it) as delights to be under bushes.
8 These were the sons of fools, and of unnoble men, and utterly appearing not on [the] earth. (They were the sons of fools, and of unnoble men, and were soon driven out of the land.)
9 But now I am turned into the song of them, and I am made a proverb to them.
10 They hold me abominable, and they flee far from me, and dread not to spit on my face (and do not fear to spit in my face).
11 For God hath opened his arrow case, and he hath tormented me, and he hath put a bridle into my mouth.
12 At the right side of the east my wretchednesses have risen up at once; they turned upside-down my feet, and they oppressed me with their paths as with floods. (On my right side they attack me in a mob; they set my feet running, and they raise against me the ways of their destruction.)
13 They destroyed my ways; they setted treason to me, and they had the mastery; and there was none that helped me (and there was no one who helped me).
14 They felled in upon me as by a broken wall, and by (a) gate opened (and by an opened gate), and (they) were stretched forth to my wretchednesses.
15 I am driven into nought; he took away my desire as [the] wind, and mine help passed away as a cloud. (I am driven down into nothing; these torments have swept away my hope like the wind, and my help hath passed away like a cloud.)
16 But now my soul fadeth in myself, and [the] days of torment hold me steadfastly. (But now my life fadeth in myself, and the days of torment strongly hold me.)
17 In [the] night my bone is pierced with sorrows; and they, that eat me (who eat me), sleep not.
18 In the multitude of those my cloth is wasted (In the multitude of them my cloak is destroyed), and they have girded me (about) as with the collar of a coat.
19 I am comparisoned to clay, and I am made like to a dead spark and ashes.
20 I shall cry to thee, and thou shalt not hear me; I stand, and thou beholdest not me. (I cry to thee, but thou hearest me not/but thou answerest me not; I stand up, but thou seest me not.)
21 Thou art changed into cruel to me, and in the hardness of thine hand thou art adversary to me. (Thou art cruel towards me, and with thy hard hand thou hast become an adversary to me.)
22 Thou hast raised me, and hast set me as on (the) wind; and hast hurtled me down strongly. (Thou hast raised me up, and set me on the wind; and then thou hast strongly hurtled me down.)
23 I know, that thou shalt betake me to death, where an house is ordained to each living man. (I know that thou shalt deliver me unto death, where a house is ordained for each man who liveth.)
24 Nevertheless thou sendest not out thine hand to the wasting of them; and if they fall down, thou shalt save them.
25 I wept sometime on him that was tormented, and my soul had compassion on a poor man. (There were times when I wept over those who were tormented, and my soul had compassion for the poor.)
26 I abode goods, and evils be come to me; I abode light, and darknesses brake out. (And I waited for good things, but only evil came to me; I waited for the light, but only darkness broke out.)
27 Mine inner things boiled out without my rest (My innards, or my bowels, boiled without any rest); and [the] days of torment came before me.
28 I went mourning, and I rose up without strong vengeance in the company, and I cried. (I went in mourning, and without any sunshine, or comfort; I rose up in the congregation, and I cried for help.)
29 I was the brother of dragons, and the fellow of ostriches.
30 My skin was made black upon me, and my bones dried for heat (and my bones dried up from the heat).
31 Mine harp is turned into mourning, and mine organ into the voice of weepers. (My harp is tuned for mourning, and my organ to the voice of those who weep.)
Footnotes
- Job 30:1 This disdain came not (out) of despite, neither (out) of pride, but (out) of worthy beholding of (their) vilety, (or vileness).
Job 30
New International Version
Job 30
New International Version
30 “But now they mock me,(A)
men younger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
to put with my sheep dogs.(B)
2 Of what use was the strength of their hands to me,
since their vigor had gone from them?
3 Haggard from want and hunger,
they roamed[a] the parched land(C)
in desolate wastelands(D) at night.(E)
4 In the brush they gathered salt herbs,(F)
and their food[b] was the root of the broom bush.(G)
5 They were banished from human society,
shouted at as if they were thieves.
6 They were forced to live in the dry stream beds,
among the rocks and in holes in the ground.(H)
7 They brayed(I) among the bushes(J)
and huddled in the undergrowth.
8 A base and nameless brood,(K)
they were driven out of the land.(L)
9 “And now those young men mock me(M) in song;(N)
I have become a byword(O) among them.
10 They detest me(P) and keep their distance;
they do not hesitate to spit in my face.(Q)
11 Now that God has unstrung my bow(R) and afflicted me,(S)
they throw off restraint(T) in my presence.
12 On my right(U) the tribe[c] attacks;
they lay snares(V) for my feet,(W)
they build their siege ramps against me.(X)
13 They break up my road;(Y)
they succeed in destroying me.(Z)
‘No one can help him,’ they say.
14 They advance as through a gaping breach;(AA)
amid the ruins they come rolling in.
15 Terrors(AB) overwhelm me;(AC)
my dignity is driven away as by the wind,
my safety vanishes like a cloud.(AD)
16 “And now my life ebbs away;(AE)
days of suffering grip me.(AF)
17 Night pierces my bones;
my gnawing pains never rest.(AG)
18 In his great power(AH) God becomes like clothing to me[d];
he binds me like the neck of my garment.
19 He throws me into the mud,(AI)
and I am reduced to dust and ashes.(AJ)
20 “I cry out to you,(AK) God, but you do not answer;(AL)
I stand up, but you merely look at me.
21 You turn on me ruthlessly;(AM)
with the might of your hand(AN) you attack me.(AO)
22 You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;(AP)
you toss me about in the storm.(AQ)
23 I know you will bring me down to death,(AR)
to the place appointed for all the living.(AS)
24 “Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man(AT)
when he cries for help in his distress.(AU)
25 Have I not wept for those in trouble?(AV)
Has not my soul grieved for the poor?(AW)
26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;
when I looked for light, then came darkness.(AX)
27 The churning inside me never stops;(AY)
days of suffering confront me.(AZ)
28 I go about blackened,(BA) but not by the sun;
I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.(BB)
29 I have become a brother of jackals,(BC)
a companion of owls.(BD)
30 My skin grows black(BE) and peels;(BF)
my body burns with fever.(BG)
31 My lyre is tuned to mourning,(BH)
and my pipe(BI) to the sound of wailing.
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