Ark of the Covenant - Bible History Online
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job 30

1 - "But now those who are younger than I have me in derision,whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.


2 - Of what use is the strength of their hands to me,men in whom ripe age has perished?
3 - They are gaunt from lack and famine.They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
4 - They pluck salt herbs by the bushes.The roots of the broom are their food.
5 - They are driven out from among men.They cry after them as after a thief;
6 - So that they dwell in frightful valleys,and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
7 - Among the bushes they bray;and under the nettles they are gathered together.
8 - They are children of fools, yes, children of base men.They were flogged out of the land.
9 - "Now I have become their song.Yes, I am a byword to them.
10 - They abhor me, they stand aloof from me,and don't hesitate to spit in my face.
11 - For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me;and they have thrown off restraint before me.
12 - On my right hand rise the rabble.They thrust aside my feet,They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
13 - They mar my path,They set forward my calamity,without anyone's help.
14 - As through a wide breach they come,in the middle of the ruin they roll themselves in.
15 - Terrors have turned on me.They chase my honor as the wind.My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
16 - "Now my soul is poured out within me.Days of affliction have taken hold on me.
17 - In the night season my bones are pierced in me,and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
18 - By great force is my garment disfigured.It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
19 - He has cast me into the mire.I have become like dust and ashes.
20 - I cry to you, and you do not answer me.I stand up, and you gaze at me.
21 - You have turned to be cruel to me.With the might of your hand you persecute me.
22 - You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it.You dissolve me in the storm.
23 - For I know that you will bring me to death,To the house appointed for all living.
24 - "However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall?Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
25 - Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble?Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?
26 - When I looked for good, then evil came;When I waited for light, there came darkness.
27 - My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest.Days of affliction have come on me.
28 - I go mourning without the sun.I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
29 - I am a brother to jackals,and a companion to ostriches.
30 - My skin grows black and peels from me.My bones are burned with heat.
31 - Therefore my harp has turned to mourning,and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.