Job 30 | BSB Bible Study

Job 30:1 (BSB)
“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.

Job 30:2 (BSB)
What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?

Job 30:3 (BSB)
Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

Job 30:4 (BSB)
They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

Job 30:5 (BSB)
They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,

Job 30:6 (BSB)
so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

Job 30:7 (BSB)
They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.

Job 30:8 (BSB)
A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.

Job 30:9 (BSB)
And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

Job 30:10 (BSB)
They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

Job 30:11 (BSB)
Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.

Job 30:12 (BSB)
The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.

Job 30:13 (BSB)
They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.

Job 30:14 (BSB)
They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.

Job 30:15 (BSB)
Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.

Job 30:16 (BSB)
And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.

Job 30:17 (BSB)
Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.

Job 30:18 (BSB)
With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.

Job 30:19 (BSB)
He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Job 30:20 (BSB)
I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.

Job 30:21 (BSB)
You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.

Job 30:22 (BSB)
You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.

Job 30:23 (BSB)
Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

Job 30:24 (BSB)
Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.

Job 30:25 (BSB)
Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?

Job 30:26 (BSB)
But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.

Job 30:27 (BSB)
I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.

Job 30:28 (BSB)
I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

Job 30:29 (BSB)
I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

Job 30:30 (BSB)
My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.

Job 30:31 (BSB)
My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.

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