Job 30:1-17 ▼

1 BUT now they laugh at me, those who are less than I,

2 Whose fathers I have disdained, and did not consider them equal to the dogs of my flocks.

3 Yea, the strength of their hands, of what use would it have been to me?

4 For they had lost their power completely.

5 They were forced by bare necessities, like a thief swept off his feet,

6 Fleeing to dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, in crevices,

7 In rocky places, and under bushes.

8 The children of fools shall be overthrown together with the children of the wicked; they shall be brought lower than the earth.

9 And now I am the subject of their mocking, yea, I have become a byword to them.

10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and do not fail to spit in my face.

11 Because they began to deride me and humiliate me, they have also put their bridle in my mouth.

12 They rise up against my right hand, they have tripped me up; they have perplexed me through the crookedness of their ways.

13 They mar my paths without a cause, they rejoice for what has befallen me; they shall have no helper.

14 They shall suffer a great ruin; they shall be broken by the hurricane.

15 For they have brought terror upon me; they have pursued my paths like the wind; and my help has passed away like a cloud.

16 And now my soul is weary; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

17 In the night my bones are in pain, and my body has no strength in it.