Job 30 (NET)

Job 30:1¹“But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:2²Moreover, the strength of their hands— what use was it to me? Those whose strength had perished,Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:3³gaunt with want and hunger, they would roam the parched land, by night a desolate waste.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:4⁴By the brush they would gather herbs from the salt marshes, and the root of the broom tree was their food.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:5⁵They were banished from the community — people shouted at them as they would shout at thieves —Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:6⁶so that they had to live in the dry stream beds, in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:7⁷They brayed like animals among the bushes and were huddled together under the nettles.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:8⁸Sons of senseless and nameless people, they were driven out of the land with whips.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:9⁹“And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:10¹⁰They detest me and maintain their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:11¹¹Because God has untied my tent cord and afflicted me, people throw off all restraint in my presence.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:12¹²On my right the young rabble rise up; they drive me from place to place, and build up siege ramps against me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:13¹³They destroy my path; they succeed in destroying me without anyone assisting them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:14¹⁴They come in as through a wide breach; amid the crash they come rolling in.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:15¹⁵Terrors are turned loose on me; they drive away my honor like the wind, and as a cloud my deliverance has passed away.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:16¹⁶“And now my soul pours itself out within me; days of suffering take hold of me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:17¹⁷Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:18¹⁸With great power God grasps my clothing; he binds me like the collar of my tunic.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:19¹⁹He has flung me into the mud, and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:20²⁰I cry out to you, but you do not answer me; I stand up, and you only look at me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:21²¹You have become cruel to me; with the strength of your hand you attack me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:22²²You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it; you toss me about in the storm.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:23²³I know that you are bringing me to death, to the meeting place for all the living.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:24²⁴“Surely one does not stretch out his hand against a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:25²⁵Have I not wept for the unfortunate? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:26²⁶But when I hoped for good, trouble came; when I expected light, then darkness came.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:27²⁷My heart is in turmoil unceasingly; the days of my affliction confront me.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:28²⁸I go about blackened, but not by the sun; in the assembly I stand up and cry for help.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:29²⁹I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:30³⁰My skin has turned dark on me; my body is hot with fever.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions

Job 30:31³¹My harp is used for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible Versions