Job 30 — UBES
30Verse 1But now the youngest have laughed me to scorn,
Now they reprove me in their turn,
Whose fathers I set at nought;
Whom I did not deem worthy to be with my shepherd dogs.
Verse 2Yea, why had I the strength of their hands?
For them the full term of life was lost.
Verse 3One is childless in want and famine,
Such as they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.
Verse 4Who compass the salt places on the sounding shore,
Who had salt herbs for their food,
And were dishonorable and of no repute, in want of every good thing;
Who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.Verse 5Thieves have risen up against me,
Verse 6Whose houses were the caves of the rocks,
Who lived under the wild shrubs.
Verse 7They will cry out among the rustling bushes.
Verse 8They are sons of fools and vile men,
Whose name and glory are quenched from off the earth.
Verse 9But now I am their music,
And they have me for a byword.
Verse 10And they stood aloof and abhorred me,
And spared not to spit in my face.
Verse 11For he has opened his quiver and afflicted me:
They also have cast off the restraint of my presence.
Verse 12They have risen up against me on the right hand of their offspring;
They have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction.
Verse 13My paths are ruined;
For they have stripped off my raiment:
He has shot at me with his weapons.
Verse 14And he has pleaded against me as he will:
I am overwhelmed with pains.
Verse 15My pains return upon me;
My hope is gone like the wind,
And my safety as a cloud.Verse 16Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me;
And days of anguish seize me.
Verse 17And by night my bones are confounded;
And my sinews are relaxed.
Verse 18With great force my disease has taken hold of my garment:
It has compassed me as the collar of my coat.
Verse 19And thou hast counted me as clay;
My portion is in dust and ashes.Verse 20And I have cried to thee, but thou hearest me not:
But they stood still, and observed me.
Verse 21They attacked me also without mercy:
Thou hast scourged me with a strong hand.
Verse 22And thou hast put me to grief,
And hast cast me away from safety.
Verse 23For I know that death will destroy me:
For the earth is the house appointed for every mortal.
Verse 24Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself,
Or at least ask another, and he should do this for me.
Verse 25Yet I wept over every helpless man;
I groaned when I saw a man in distress.
Verse 26But I, when I waited for good things,
Behold, days of evils came the more upon me.Verse 27My belly boiled, and would not cease:
The days of poverty prevented me.
Verse 28I went mourning without restraint:
And I have stood and cried out in the assembly.
Verse 29I am become a brother of monsters,
And a companion of ostriches.
Verse 30And my skin has been greatly blackened,
And my bones are burned with heat.
Verse 31My harp also has been turned into mourning,
And my song into my weeping.
Now they reprove me in their turn,
Whose fathers I set at nought;
Whom I did not deem worthy to be with my shepherd dogs.
Verse 2Yea, why had I the strength of their hands?
For them the full term of life was lost.
Verse 3One is childless in want and famine,
Such as they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.
Verse 4Who compass the salt places on the sounding shore,
Who had salt herbs for their food,
And were dishonorable and of no repute, in want of every good thing;
Who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.Verse 5Thieves have risen up against me,
Verse 6Whose houses were the caves of the rocks,
Who lived under the wild shrubs.
Verse 7They will cry out among the rustling bushes.
Verse 8They are sons of fools and vile men,
Whose name and glory are quenched from off the earth.
Verse 9But now I am their music,
And they have me for a byword.
Verse 10And they stood aloof and abhorred me,
And spared not to spit in my face.
Verse 11For he has opened his quiver and afflicted me:
They also have cast off the restraint of my presence.
Verse 12They have risen up against me on the right hand of their offspring;
They have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction.
Verse 13My paths are ruined;
For they have stripped off my raiment:
He has shot at me with his weapons.
Verse 14And he has pleaded against me as he will:
I am overwhelmed with pains.
Verse 15My pains return upon me;
My hope is gone like the wind,
And my safety as a cloud.Verse 16Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me;
And days of anguish seize me.
Verse 17And by night my bones are confounded;
And my sinews are relaxed.
Verse 18With great force my disease has taken hold of my garment:
It has compassed me as the collar of my coat.
Verse 19And thou hast counted me as clay;
My portion is in dust and ashes.Verse 20And I have cried to thee, but thou hearest me not:
But they stood still, and observed me.
Verse 21They attacked me also without mercy:
Thou hast scourged me with a strong hand.
Verse 22And thou hast put me to grief,
And hast cast me away from safety.
Verse 23For I know that death will destroy me:
For the earth is the house appointed for every mortal.
Verse 24Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself,
Or at least ask another, and he should do this for me.
Verse 25Yet I wept over every helpless man;
I groaned when I saw a man in distress.
Verse 26But I, when I waited for good things,
Behold, days of evils came the more upon me.Verse 27My belly boiled, and would not cease:
The days of poverty prevented me.
Verse 28I went mourning without restraint:
And I have stood and cried out in the assembly.
Verse 29I am become a brother of monsters,
And a companion of ostriches.
Verse 30And my skin has been greatly blackened,
And my bones are burned with heat.
Verse 31My harp also has been turned into mourning,
And my song into my weeping.