Job 30:1-7 ▼

1 But now, those younger in years scorn me, whose fathers I would not have seen fit to place with the dogs of my flock,

2 the strength of whose hands was nothing to me, and they were considered unworthy of life itself.

3 They were barren from poverty and hunger; they gnawed in solitude, layered with misfortune and misery.

4 And they chewed grass and the bark from trees, and the root of junipers was their food.

5 They took these things from the steep valleys, and when they discovered one of these things, they rushed to the others with a cry.

6 They lived in the parched desert and in caves underground or above the rocks.

7 They rejoiced among these kinds of things, and they considered it delightful to be under thorns.