Chapter 30

¹ But now the youngest have laughed me to scorn,

Job 30:1

² Yea, why had I the strength of their hands?

Job 30:2

³ [One is] childless in want and famine,

Job 30:3

⁴ Who compass the salt places on the sounding [shore],

Job 30:4

⁵ Thieves have risen up against me,

Job 30:5

⁶ Whose houses were the caves of the rocks,

Job 30:6

⁷ They will cry out among the rustling [bushes].

Job 30:7

⁸ [They are] sons of fools and vile men,

Job 30:8

⁹ But now I am their music,

Job 30:9

¹⁰ And they stood aloof and abhorred me,

Job 30:10

¹¹ For he has opened his quiver and afflicted me:

Job 30:11

¹² They have risen up against [me] on the right hand of [their] offspring;

Job 30:12

¹³ My paths are ruined;

Job 30:13

¹⁴ And he has pleaded against me as he will:

Job 30:14

¹⁵ My pains return upon [me];

Job 30:15

¹⁶ Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me;

Job 30:16

¹⁷ And by night my bones are confounded;

Job 30:17

¹⁸ With great force [my disease] has taken hold of my garment:

Job 30:18

¹⁹ And thou hast counted me as clay;

Job 30:19

²⁰ And I have cried to thee, but thou hearest me not:

Job 30:20

²¹ They attacked me also without mercy:

Job 30:21

²² And thou hast put me to grief,

Job 30:22

²³ For I know that death will destroy me:

Job 30:23

²⁴ Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself,

Job 30:24

²⁵ Yet I wept over every helpless man;

Job 30:25

²⁶ But I, when I waited for good things,

Job 30:26

²⁷ My belly boiled, and would not cease:

Job 30:27

²⁸ I went mourning without restraint:

Job 30:28

²⁹ I am become a brother of monsters,

Job 30:29

³⁰ And my skin has been greatly blackened,

Job 30:30

³¹ My harp also has been turned into mourning,

Job 30:31