{"book":"Job","slug":"job","ch":30,"genre":"poetry","sub":"Job","prev":"job/29","next":"job/31","verses":[{"v":1,"t":"[“] But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"[“] But now they mock me,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"men younger than I am,"},{"style":"indent1","t":"whose fathers I would have refused"},{"style":"indent2","t":"to put with my sheep dogs."}],"h":"Job’s Honor Turned to Contempt","style":"indent1stline"},{"v":2,"t":"What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"What use to me was the strength of their hands,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"since their vigor had left them?"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":3,"t":"Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Gaunt from poverty and hunger,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"they gnawed the dry land,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and the desolate wasteland by night."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":4,"t":"They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.","f":["Or their fuel"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"They plucked mallow among the shrubs,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and the roots of the broom tree were their food."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":5,"t":"They were banished from among [men], shouted at like thieves,","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"They were banished from among [men],"},{"style":"indent2","t":"shouted at like thieves,"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":6,"t":"so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"among the rocks and in holes in the ground."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":7,"t":"They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"They cried out among the shrubs"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and huddled beneath the nettles."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":8,"t":"A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"A senseless and nameless brood,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"they were driven off the land."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":9,"t":"And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"And now they mock me in song;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"I have become a byword among them."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":10,"t":"They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"They abhor me and keep far from me;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"they do not hesitate to spit in my face."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":11,"t":"Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.","f":["Hebrew the bridle"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"they have cast off restraint in my presence."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":12,"t":"The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"The rabble arises at my right;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"they lay snares for my feet"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and build siege ramps against me."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":13,"t":"They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.","f":["Or with no one to assist them"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"They tear up my path;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"they profit from my destruction,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"with no one to restrain them."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":14,"t":"They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"They advance as through a wide breach;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"through the ruins they keep rolling in."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":15,"t":"Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Terrors are turned loose against me;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"they drive away my dignity as by the wind,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and my prosperity has passed like a cloud."}],"h":"Job’s Prosperity Becomes Calamity","style":"indent1stline"},{"v":16,"t":"And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"And now my soul is poured out within me;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"days of affliction grip me."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":17,"t":"Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Night pierces my bones,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and my gnawing pains never rest."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":18,"t":"With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.","f":["LXX; Hebrew He becomes like a garment to me or my garment is disfigured"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"With great force He grasps my garment;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"He seizes me by the collar of my tunic."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":19,"t":"He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"He throws me into the mud,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and I have become like dust and ashes."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":20,"t":"I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"when I stand up, You merely look at me."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":21,"t":"You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"You have ruthlessly turned on me;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"You oppose me with Your strong hand."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":22,"t":"You snatch me up into the wind and drive me [before it]; You toss me about in the storm.","f":["Or You dissolve me"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"You snatch me up into the wind"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and drive me [before it];"},{"style":"indent2","t":"You toss me about in the storm."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":23,"t":"Yes, I know that You will bring me down [to] death, to the place appointed for all the living.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Yes, I know that You will bring me down [to] death,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"to the place appointed for all the living."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":24,"t":"Yet no one stretches out his hand against a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1stline","t":"Yet no one stretches out his hand against a ruined man"},{"style":"indent2","t":"when he cries for help in his distress."}],"style":"indent1stline"},{"v":25,"t":"Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"Have I not wept for those in trouble?"},{"style":"indent2","t":"Has my soul not grieved for the needy?"}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":26,"t":"But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"But when I hoped for good, evil came;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"when I looked for light, darkness fell."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":27,"t":"I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"I am churning within and cannot rest;"},{"style":"indent2","t":"days of affliction confront me."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":28,"t":"I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"I go about blackened, but not by the sun."},{"style":"indent2","t":"I stand up in the assembly and cry for help."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":29,"t":"I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.","f":["Or serpents or dragons","Literally of daughters of an ostrich or of daughters of an owl"],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"I have become a brother of jackals,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"a companion of ostriches."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":30,"t":"My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"My skin grows black and peels,"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and my bones burn with fever."}],"style":"indent1"},{"v":31,"t":"My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.[’’]","f":[],"lines":[{"style":"indent1","t":"My harp is tuned to mourning"},{"style":"indent2","t":"and my flute to the sound of weeping.[’’]"}],"style":"indent1"}]}