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Iob 30 - King James 1611 bible

Iob 30

¹But nowe they that are yonger then I, haue mee in derision, whose fathers I would haue disdained to haue set with the dogs of my flocke.

²Yea whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom olde age was perished?

³For want and famine they were solitarie: flying into the wildernesse in former time desolate and waste:

⁴Who cut vp mallowes by the bushes, and Iuniper rootes for their meate.

⁵They were driuen foorth from among men, (they cried after them, as after a thiefe.)

⁶To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caues of the earth, and in the rockes.

⁷Among the bushes they brayed: vnder the nettles they were gathered together.

⁸They were children of fooles, yea children of base men: they were viler then the earth.

⁹And now am I their song, yea I am their by-word.

¹⁰They abhorre me, they flee farre from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

¹¹Because hee hath loosed my cord and afflicted me, they haue also let loose the bridle before me.

¹²Upon my right hand rise the youth, they push away my feete, and they raise vp against mee the wayes of their destruction.

¹³They marre my path, they set forward my calamitie, they haue no helper.

¹⁴They came vpon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselues vpon me.

¹⁵Terrours are turned vpon mee: they pursue my soule as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloude.

¹⁶And now my soule is powred out vpon me: the dayes of affliction haue taken hold vpon me.

¹⁷My bones are pierced in mee in the night season: and my sinewes take no rest.

¹⁸By the great force of my disease, is my garment changed: it bindeth mee about as the collar of my coat.

¹⁹He hath cast mee into the myre, and I am become like dust and ashes.

²⁰I crie vnto thee, and thou doest not heare me: I stand vp, and thou regardest me not.

²¹Thou art become cruell to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thy selfe against me.

²²Thou liftest me vp to the wind: thou causest me to ride vpon it, and dissoluest my substance.

²³For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all liuing.

²⁴Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the graue, though they cry in his destruction.

²⁵Did not I weepe for him that was in trouble? was not my soule grieued for the poore?

²⁶When I looked for good, then euill came vnto mee: and when I waited for light, there came darkenes.

²⁷My bowels boyled and rested not: the dayes of affliction preuented mee.

²⁸I went mourning without the Sunne: I stood vp, and I cried in the Congregation.

²⁹I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owles.

³⁰My skinne is blacke vpon mee, and my bones are burnt with heat.

³¹My harpe also is turned to mourning, and my organe into the voyce of them that weepe.