Job 30:1

And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.

Job 30:2

Also -- the power of their hands, why `is it' to me? On them hath old age perished.

Job 30:3

With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,

Job 30:4

Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots `is' their food.

Job 30:5

From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),

Job 30:6

In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts.

Job 30:7

Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.

Job 30:8

Sons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.

Job 30:9

And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.

Job 30:10

They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit.

Job 30:11

Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.

Job 30:12

On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.

Job 30:13

They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, `He hath no helper.'

Job 30:14

As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.

Job 30:15

He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.

Job 30:16

And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction.

Job 30:17

At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.

Job 30:18

By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me.

Job 30:19

Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

Job 30:20

I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me.

Job 30:21

Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppresest me.

Job 30:22

Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest -- Thou levellest me.

Job 30:23

For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And `to' the house appointed for all living.

Job 30:24

Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.

Job 30:25

Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.

Job 30:26

When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.

Job 30:27

My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.

Job 30:28

Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry.

Job 30:29

A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.

Job 30:30

My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,

Job 30:31

And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.