Job 30 — YLT

30Verse 1And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.^{Verse 2}Also — the power of their hands, why [is it] to me? On them hath old age perished.^{Verse 3}With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,^{Verse 4}Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots [is] their food.^{Verse 5}From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),^{Verse 6}In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts.^{Verse 7}Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.^{Verse 8}Sons of folly — even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.^{Verse 9}And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.^{Verse 10}They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.^{Verse 11}Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.^{Verse 12}On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.^{Verse 13}They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, 'He hath no helper.'^{Verse 14}As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.^{Verse 15}He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.^{Verse 16}And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction.^{Verse 17}At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.^{Verse 18}By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me.^{Verse 19}Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.^{Verse 20}I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me.^{Verse 21}Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppressest me.^{Verse 22}Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest — Thou levellest me.^{Verse 23}For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And [to] the house appointed for all living.^{Verse 24}Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.^{Verse 25}Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.^{Verse 26}When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.^{Verse 27}My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.^{Verse 28}Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry.^{Verse 29}A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.^{Verse 30}My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,^{Verse 31}And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.