Job 30 ~ 32

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30:1But now those who are younger than I / Hold me in derision, / Those whose fathers I disdained / To put with the dogs of my flock. Compare
30:2Indeed, what good is the strength of their hands to me? / Their vigor has perished from them. Compare
30:3Withered up through want and hunger, / They gnaw at the dry ground, / A gloom of waste and desolation. Compare
30:4They pick the mallow upon the bushes, / And the roots of the broom shrub are their food. Compare
30:5They are driven from the company of men; / Men cry after them as after a thief; Compare
30:6So that they must dwell in the most dreadful ravines, / In caves of the earth and in the rocks. Compare
30:7Among the bushes they bray; / Under the nettles they huddle. Compare
30:8Sons of fools, indeed sons of nameless men, / They have been stricken from the land. Compare
30:9And now I have become their song, / And I am a byword to them. Compare
30:10They abhor me; they stand aloof from me; / And they do not withhold their spit from my face. Compare
30:11For He has loosened my cord and afflicted me; / Therefore they have cast off restraint in my presence. Compare
30:12At my right hand a brood rises up; / They send my feet running / And cast up against me their ways of destruction. Compare
30:13They break up my path; / They promote my calamity, / Though there is no profit to them. Compare
30:14As through a wide breach they come in; / Amid the ruin they roll on. Compare
30:15Terrors are turned upon me; / My honor is pursued as by a wind, / And my prosperity passes away like a cloud. Compare
30:16And now my soul is poured out within me; / Days of affliction have taken hold of me. Compare
30:17The night rends my bones from me, / And my gnawing pains do not rest. Compare
30:18With great force my garments are distorted; / It binds me like the collar of my coat. Compare
30:19He has cast me into the mire, / And I am like dust and ashes. Compare
30:20I cry unto You, but You do not answer me; / I stand up, and You stare at me. Compare
30:21You have turned to become cruel to me; / With the might of Your hand You pursue me. Compare
30:22You lift me up into the wind; You make me ride on it; / And You dissolve me in the storm. Compare
30:23For I know that You will bring me into death, / And to the house appointed for all living. Compare
30:24Nevertheless does not a man put forth his hand when he falls, / Or because of his disaster therefore cry out? Compare
30:25Did I not weep for him who had hard days? / Was my soul not grieved for the needy? Compare
30:26When I expected good, evil came; / And when I waited for light, darkness came. Compare
30:27My inward parts are in turmoil and are not still; / Days of affliction have drawn near to me. Compare
30:28I go about in sunless mourning. / I rise up in the congregation; I cry for help. Compare
30:29I am a brother to jackals / And a companion to ostriches. Compare
30:30My skin is black and falling from me, / And my bones burn with heat. Compare
30:31My lyre has become mourning, / And my pipe, the voice of those who weep. Compare
31:1I made a covenant with my eyes; / How then can I gaze upon a virgin? Compare
31:2What then is the portion from God above, / Or the inheritance of the Almighty on high? Compare
31:3Is it not calamity for the unjust / And misfortune for the workers of iniquity? Compare
31:4Does He not see my ways / And count all my steps? Compare
31:5If I have walked with falsehood, / And my foot has hastened after deceit - Compare
31:6Let Him weigh me in a righteous balance, / And let God know my integrity - Compare
31:7If my step has turned from the way, / And my heart has gone after my own eyes, / And if any spot has stuck to my hands; Compare
31:8May I sow and another eat; / Indeed may my produce be rooted up. Compare
31:9If my heart has been enticed into following after a woman, / Or I have lain in wait at my neighbor's door; Compare
31:10May my wife grind for another, / And may others kneel over her. Compare
31:11For that would have been a heinous act, / And it would be wickedness, to be punished by the judges. Compare
31:12For it is a fire that devours to Abaddon / And would root up all my increase. Compare
31:13If I have despised the cause of my servant or my maid / When they contended with me, Compare
31:14What then will I do when God rises up? / And when He visits me, what will I answer Him? Compare
31:15Did not He who made me in the womb make him? / And was it not One who fashioned us in the womb? Compare
31:16If I have withheld the poor from their desire, / Or have let the eyes of the widow fail, Compare
31:17Or have eaten my morsel alone / Without the orphan eating of it - Compare
31:18Rather, from my youth he grew up with me as with a father, / And from my mother's womb I guided the widow - Compare
31:19If I have seen someone perishing from lack of clothing / Or that the needy had no covering; Compare
31:20If his loins have not blessed me, / And he has not been made warm with the fleece of my sheep; Compare
31:21If I have raised my hand against the orphan / Because I saw that I had support among those in the gate; Compare
31:22May my shoulder blade fall from the shoulder, / And may my arm be broken at the elbow. Compare
31:23For calamity from God is dreadful to me, / And because of His majesty I can do nothing. Compare
31:24If I have made gold my hope, / And have called fine gold my confidence; Compare
31:25If I have rejoiced because my wealth was great / And because my hand had acquired much; Compare
31:26If I have looked at the sun when it shone / Or the moon going on in splendor, Compare
31:27And my heart has been secretly enticed, / And my mouth has kissed my hand; Compare
31:28It too would be wickedness, to be punished by the judges, / For I would have denied God above. Compare
31:29If I have rejoiced at the misfortune of him who hated me, / Or have exulted when evil found him - Compare
31:30Rather, I have not allowed my mouth to sin / By asking for his life with a curse - Compare
31:31If the men of my tent have not said, / Who can find one who has not been filled with our master's meat? - Compare
31:32The sojourner has not lodged in the street; / I have opened my doors to the highway - Compare
31:33If I have covered my transgressions as Adam did / By hiding my iniquity in my bosom, Compare
31:34Because I so dreaded the great multitude, / And the contempt of the families so frightened me, / That I was silent and did not go out my door - Compare
31:35Oh, that I had someone to hear me! / Here is my signature! Let the Almighty answer me. / And let my accuser write up the charge. Compare
31:36Surely I would carry it on my shoulder; / I would bind it onto me like a crown; Compare
31:37I would declare to Him the number of my steps; / Like a prince I would approach Him! Compare
31:38If my land cries out against me, / And its furrows weep together; Compare
31:39If I have eaten its strength without money, / And have caused its owners to lose their life; Compare
31:40May thorns come forth instead of wheat, / And pungent weeds instead of barley. / The words of Job are ended. Compare
32:1Then these three men ceased answering Job, for he was righteous in his own eyes. Compare

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