Verse-Reference
Reference-Verse
Abbreviate Books
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 Job 30:1 |
"But now those younger than I mock me, Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock. |
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Job 30:2 |
"Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me? Vigor had perished from them. |
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Job 30:3 |
"From want and famine they are gaunt Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation, |
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Job 30:4 |
Who pluck [fn]mallow by the bushes, And whose food is the root of the broom shrub. |
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Job 30:5 |
"They are driven from the community; They shout against them as against a thief, |
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Job 30:6 |
So that they dwell in dreadful [fn]valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks. |
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Job 30:7 |
"Among the bushes they [fn]cry out; Under the nettles they are gathered together. |
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Job 30:8 |
" [fn]Fools, even [fn]those without a name, They were scourged from the land. |
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Job 30:9 |
"And now I have become their [fn]taunt, I have even become a byword to them. |
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Job 30:10 |
"They abhor me and stand aloof from me, And they do not [fn]refrain from spitting at my face. |
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Job 30:11 |
"Because [fn]He has loosed [fn]His [fn]bowstring and afflicted me, They have cast off the bridle before me. |
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Job 30:12 |
"On the right hand their [fn]brood arises; They thrust aside my feet and build up against me their ways of destruction. |
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Job 30:13 |
"They break up my path, They profit [fn]from my destruction; No one restrains them. |
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Job 30:14 |
"As through a wide breach they come, [fn]Amid the tempest they roll on. |
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Job 30:15 |
"Terrors are turned against me; They pursue my [fn]honor as the wind, And my [fn]prosperity has passed away like a cloud. |
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Job 30:16 |
"And now my soul is poured out [fn]within me; Days of affliction have seized me. |
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Job 30:17 |
"At night it pierces my bones [fn]within me, And my gnawing pains take no rest. |
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Job 30:18 |
"By a great force my garment is distorted; It binds me about as the collar of my coat. |
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Job 30:19 |
"He has cast me into the mire, And I have become like dust and ashes. |
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Job 30:20 |
"I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me; I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me. |
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Job 30:21 |
"You have [fn]become cruel to me; With the might of Your hand You persecute me. |
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Job 30:22 |
"You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride; And You dissolve me in a storm. |
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Job 30:23 |
"For I know that You will bring me to death And to the house of meeting for all living. |
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Job 30:24 |
"Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, Or in his disaster therefore cry out for help? |
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Job 30:25 |
"Have I not wept for the [fn]one whose life is hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy? |
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Job 30:26 |
"When I expected good, then evil came; When I waited for light, then darkness came. |
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Job 30:27 |
" [fn]I am seething within and cannot relax; Days of affliction confront me. |
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Job 30:28 |
"I go about [fn]mourning without comfort; I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help. |
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Job 30:29 |
"I have become a brother to jackals And a companion of ostriches. |
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Job 30:30 |
"My skin turns black [fn]on me, And my bones burn with [fn]fever. |
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Job 30:31 |
"Therefore my harp [fn]is turned to mourning, And my flute to the sound of those who weep. |
NASB Footnotes:
- (30:4) I.e. plant of the salt marshes
- (30:6) Or, wadis
- (30:7) Or, bray
- (30:8) Literally: Sons of fools
- (30:8) Literally: sons
- (30:9) Literally: song
- (30:10) Literally: withhold spit from my face
- (30:11) Or, they
- (30:11) Some mss read my
- (30:11) Or, cord
- (30:12) Possibly sprout or offspring
- (30:13) Literally: for
- (30:14) Literally: Under
- (30:15) Or, nobility
- (30:15) Or, welfare
- (30:16) Literally: upon
- (30:17) Literally: from upon
- (30:21) Literally: turned to be
- (30:25) Literally: hard of day
- (30:27) Literally: My inward parts are boiling
- (30:28) Or, blackened, but not by the heat of the sun
- (30:30) Literally: from upon
- (30:30) Literally: heat
- (30:31) Literally: becomes
