Job 30

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WEB“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.
KJVBut 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.
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WEBOf what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?
KJVYea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
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WEBThey are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
KJVFor want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
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WEBThey pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.
KJVWho cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
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WEBThey are driven out from among men. They cry after them as after a thief,
KJVThey were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
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WEBso that they live in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
KJVTo dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
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WEBThey bray among the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles.
KJVAmong the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
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WEBThey are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land.
KJVThey were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
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WEB“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.
KJVAnd now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
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WEBThey abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.
KJVThey abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
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WEBFor he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.
KJVBecause he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
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WEBOn my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet. They cast their ways of destruction up against me.
KJVUpon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
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WEBThey mar my path. They promote my destruction without anyone’s help.
KJVThey mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
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WEBAs through a wide breach they come. They roll themselves in amid the ruin.
KJVThey came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
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WEBTerrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
KJVTerrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
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WEB“Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of me.
KJVAnd now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
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WEBIn the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
KJVMy bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
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WEBMy garment is disfigured by great force. It binds me about as the collar of my tunic.
KJVBy the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
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WEBHe has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
KJVHe hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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WEBI cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.
KJVI cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
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WEBYou have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.
KJVThou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
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WEBYou lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.
KJVThou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
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WEBFor I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.
KJVFor I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
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WEB“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
KJVHowbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
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WEBDidn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
KJVDid not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
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WEBWhen I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.
KJVWhen I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
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WEBMy heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. Days of affliction have come on me.
KJVMy bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
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WEBI go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
KJVI went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
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WEBI am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.
KJVI am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
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WEBMy skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.
KJVMy skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
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WEBTherefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
KJVMy harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

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