Job 30:1-15
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.
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- 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.
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