Job 30:1-15

International Children’s Bible

30 “But now men who are younger than I make fun of me.
I would not have even let their fathers
    sit with my sheep dogs.
² Their hands had no strength to help me.
    They had even lost their strength to work.
³ They were thin from being hungry and in need.
    They wandered through the dry and ruined land at night.
⁴ They gathered desert plants by the brush for food.
    They even ate the root of the broom tree.
⁵ They were forced to live away from other people.
    People shouted at them as if they were thieves.
⁶ These young men had to live in dried up streambeds.
    They lived in caves and among the rocks.
⁷ They howled like animals out among the bushes.
    And they huddled together in the brush.
⁸ They are worthless people without names.
    They were forced to leave the land.

⁹ “Now they make fun of me with songs.
    My name has become a joke among them.
¹⁰ They hate me and stay far away from me.
    But they do not mind spitting in my face.
¹¹ God has taken away my strength and made me suffer.
    So they attack me with all their anger.
¹² On my right side they attack me like a mob.
    They lay traps for my feet.
    They prepare to attack me.
¹³ They break up my road.
    They work to destroy me
    without anyone stopping them.
¹⁴ They go forward as if through a hole in the wall.
    They roll in among the ruins.
¹⁵ Great fears overwhelm me.
    They blow my honor away as if by a great wind.
    My safety disappears like a cloud.