Job 30 — TOJB
30Verse 1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision,
whose avot I would have disdained to have set
with the dogs of my tzon.
Verse 2Yea, what use was the koach of their hands to me,
since their vigor hath perished?
Verse 3For choser (want, lack) and hunger
they gnawed the parched ground desolate and waste.
Verse 4They cut up mallow plants by the bushes,
and juniper roots for their lechem.
Verse 5They were banished from among men,
(they shouted after them as after a ganav);
Verse 6To dwell in the clefts of the wadis,
in holes of aphar, and in the rocks.
Verse 7Among the bushes they brayed;
tachat (under) the underbrush they were huddled together.
Verse 8They were bnei naval, yea, sons of base men;
they were driven forth out of ha'aretz.Verse 9And atah (now) am I their mocking song,
yea, I am their byword.
Verse 10They abhor me, they flee far from me,
and spare not rok (spit) in my face.+
Verse 11Because He hath loosed my bowstring, and afflicted me,
they have also let loose the resen (bridle) before me.
Verse 12Upon my yamin (right hand) rise up the rabble;
they push away my feet,
and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Verse 13They break up my road,
they set forward my overthrow, they have no ozer (helper).
Verse 14They approach me as through a wide breach;
in the shoah (desolation, Holocaust), they rolled themselves upon me.
Verse 15Ballahot (terrors) are turned upon me;
they pursue my dignity like the ruach,
and my safety passeth away like a cloud.
Verse 16And now my nefesh ebbs away from me;
the yemei oni have taken hold upon me.
Verse 17My atzmot are pierced in me in the night,
and my gnawing pains take no rest.
Verse 18By great koach is my garment disfigured;
it bindeth me about like the collar of my kuttonet (chiton, robe).
Verse 19He hath cast me into the chomer,
and I am become like aphar and ashes.
Verse 20I cry unto Thee, and Thou dost answer me lo (not);
I stand up, and Thou regardest me not.
Verse 21Thou art become cruel to me;
with Thy strong yad Thou opposest Thyself against me.
Verse 22Thou liftest me up to the ruach;
Thou causest me to drive along, and vanish in the roaring of the storm.
Verse 23For I know that Thou wilt bring me down to mavet,
to the bais mo'ed l'khol chai.
Verse 24Yet will not one stretch out his yad in a heap of ruin,
or cry out for help in his disaster.
Verse 25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble?
Was not my nefesh grieved for the evyon (needy)?
Verse 26When I looked for tov,
then rah came unto me;
and when I waited for ohr,
there came ofel (darkness).
Verse 27My bowels boiled, and rested not;
yemei oni met me.
Verse 28I went mourning without the sun;
I stood up, and I cried out in the kahal.
Verse 29I am an ach to jackals,
and a re'a to owls.
Verse 30My ohr (skin) grows black upon me,
and my atzmot are burned with fever.
Verse 31My kinnor (harp) also is turned to evel (mourning),
and my flute into the voice of them that weep.
whose avot I would have disdained to have set
with the dogs of my tzon.
Verse 2Yea, what use was the koach of their hands to me,
since their vigor hath perished?
Verse 3For choser (want, lack) and hunger
they gnawed the parched ground desolate and waste.
Verse 4They cut up mallow plants by the bushes,
and juniper roots for their lechem.
Verse 5They were banished from among men,
(they shouted after them as after a ganav);
Verse 6To dwell in the clefts of the wadis,
in holes of aphar, and in the rocks.
Verse 7Among the bushes they brayed;
tachat (under) the underbrush they were huddled together.
Verse 8They were bnei naval, yea, sons of base men;
they were driven forth out of ha'aretz.Verse 9And atah (now) am I their mocking song,
yea, I am their byword.
Verse 10They abhor me, they flee far from me,
and spare not rok (spit) in my face.+
Verse 11Because He hath loosed my bowstring, and afflicted me,
they have also let loose the resen (bridle) before me.
Verse 12Upon my yamin (right hand) rise up the rabble;
they push away my feet,
and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Verse 13They break up my road,
they set forward my overthrow, they have no ozer (helper).
Verse 14They approach me as through a wide breach;
in the shoah (desolation, Holocaust), they rolled themselves upon me.
Verse 15Ballahot (terrors) are turned upon me;
they pursue my dignity like the ruach,
and my safety passeth away like a cloud.
Verse 16And now my nefesh ebbs away from me;
the yemei oni have taken hold upon me.
Verse 17My atzmot are pierced in me in the night,
and my gnawing pains take no rest.
Verse 18By great koach is my garment disfigured;
it bindeth me about like the collar of my kuttonet (chiton, robe).
Verse 19He hath cast me into the chomer,
and I am become like aphar and ashes.
Verse 20I cry unto Thee, and Thou dost answer me lo (not);
I stand up, and Thou regardest me not.
Verse 21Thou art become cruel to me;
with Thy strong yad Thou opposest Thyself against me.
Verse 22Thou liftest me up to the ruach;
Thou causest me to drive along, and vanish in the roaring of the storm.
Verse 23For I know that Thou wilt bring me down to mavet,
to the bais mo'ed l'khol chai.
Verse 24Yet will not one stretch out his yad in a heap of ruin,
or cry out for help in his disaster.
Verse 25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble?
Was not my nefesh grieved for the evyon (needy)?
Verse 26When I looked for tov,
then rah came unto me;
and when I waited for ohr,
there came ofel (darkness).
Verse 27My bowels boiled, and rested not;
yemei oni met me.
Verse 28I went mourning without the sun;
I stood up, and I cried out in the kahal.
Verse 29I am an ach to jackals,
and a re'a to owls.
Verse 30My ohr (skin) grows black upon me,
and my atzmot are burned with fever.
Verse 31My kinnor (harp) also is turned to evel (mourning),
and my flute into the voice of them that weep.