Job 30

1'But now they laugh me to scorn, Men younger than I, whose fathers I disdained; Whom I did not deem worthy to be put With the dogs of my pastures.

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2Indeed, what profit is the strength of their hands to me? For them the full term of life was lost.

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3In want and famine, they are childless. Yesterday they fled to a waterless desert in anguish and misery.

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4They are those who surround the noisy salt places, Who have salty herbs for their food, And who are also considered worthless And deficient of every good thing, And chew on the roots of trees because of their great hunger.

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5Thieves have risen up against me,

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6Whose houses were holes in the rocks,

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7Who cry out among the rustling bushes And live under the wild shrubs.

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8They are the sons of fools and dishonored men, Whose name and fame were extinguished from the earth.

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9'But now I am their lyre, And they have me as their byword.

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10They detest me and keep their distance. They do not hesitate to spit in my face.

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11For He has opened His quiver and afflicted me. They have cast off restraint in my presence.

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12They rose up against me by the right hands of their offspring; And they stretched out their foot And directed against me their paths of destruction.

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13My paths are ruined, for they stripped off my garment.

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14He shot me down with His arrows And used me as He wished. I am overwhelmed with pains.

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15My pains are turned upon me. My hope is gone like the wind And my salvation like a cloud.

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16'Even now my soul will be poured forth upon me, And the days of pains seize me.

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17By night my bones are set on fire, And my sinews are broken up.

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18With great force He took hold of my garment, And like the collar of my tunic He surrounded me.

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19You regarded me as clay in the earth, And my portion is with ashes.

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20'I cry out to You, but You do not answer me. They stood and observed me.

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21You attacked me without mercy And scourged me with a strong hand.

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22You appointed pains for me And cast me away from salvation.

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23For I know death will destroy me, For the earth is the house for every mortal.

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24'Would that I might lay hands on myself, Or at least ask another, and he would do it for me.

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25Yet I wept over every man without strength And groaned when I saw a man in distress.

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26But while I held firmly to good things, Days of evils happened to me instead.

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27My stomach churns and will not be quiet, And days of poverty have come upon me.

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28I go groaning without restraint; I stand up and cry out in the church.

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29I have become a brother of sirens And a companion of sparrows.

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30My skin has been greatly darkened, And my bones are burned by the heat.

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31My lyre turned into mourning And my song into my weeping.

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