Job 30 — KJV

30 Verse 1 But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. ^{Verse 2} Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? ^{Verse 3} For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. ^{Verse 4} Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. ^{Verse 5} They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;) ^{Verse 6} To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. ^{Verse 7} Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. ^{Verse 8} They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. ^{Verse 9} And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. ^{Verse 10} They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. ^{Verse 11} Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. ^{Verse 12} Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. ^{Verse 13} They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. ^{Verse 14} They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. ^{Verse 15} Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. ^{Verse 16} And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. ^{Verse 17} My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. ^{Verse 18} By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. ^{Verse 19} He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. ^{Verse 20} I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. ^{Verse 21} Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. ^{Verse 22} Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance. ^{Verse 23} For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. ^{Verse 24} Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. ^{Verse 25} Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? ^{Verse 26} When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. ^{Verse 27} My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. ^{Verse 28} I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. ^{Verse 29} I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. ^{Verse 30} My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. ^{Verse 31} My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.