Job 30 — GMV
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Verse 1
But now the youngest have laughed me to scorn,
Verse 2
Yea, why had I the strength of their hands?
Verse 3
One is childless in want and famine,
Verse 4
Who compass the salt places on the sounding shore,
Verse 5
Thieves have risen up against me,
Verse 6
Whose houses were the caves of the rocks,
Verse 7
They will cry out among the rustling bushes.
Verse 8
They are sons of fools and vile men,
Verse 9
But now I am their music,
Verse 10
And they stood aloof and abhorred me,
Verse 11
For he has opened his quiver and afflicted me:
Verse 12
They have risen up against me on the right hand of their offspring;
Verse 13
My paths are ruined;
Verse 14
And he has pleaded against me as he will:
Verse 15
My pains return upon me;
Verse 16
Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me;
Verse 17
And by night my bones are confounded;
Verse 18
With great force my disease has taken hold of my garment:
Verse 19
And thou hast counted me as clay;
Verse 20
And I have cried to thee, but thou hearest me not:
Verse 21
They attacked me also without mercy:
Verse 22
And thou hast put me to grief,
Verse 23
For I know that death will destroy me:
Verse 24
Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself,
Verse 25
Yet I wept over every helpless man;
Verse 26
But I, when I waited for good things,
Verse 27
My belly boiled, and would not cease:
Verse 28
I went mourning without restraint:
Verse 29
I am become a brother of monsters,
Verse 30
And my skin has been greatly blackened,
Verse 31
My harp also has been turned into mourning,