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Job 30

Brenton's English Septuagint · Berean Standard Bible

30:1

But now the youngest have laughed me to scorn, now they reprove me in [their] turn, whose fathers I set at nought; whom I did not deem worthy [to be with] my shepherd dogs.

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30:2

Yea, why had I the strength of their hands? for them the full term [of life] was lost.

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30:3

[One is] childless in want and famine, [such as] they that fled but lately the distress and misery of drought.

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30:4

Who compass the salt places on the sounding [shore], who had salt [herbs] for their food, and were dishonourable and of no repute, in want of every good thing; who also ate roots of trees by reason of great hunger.

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30:5

Thieves have risen up against me,

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30:6

whose houses were the caves of the rocks, who lived under the wild shrubs.

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30:7

They will cry out among the rustling [bushes].

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30:8

[They are] sons of fools and vile men, [whose] name and glory [are] quenched from off the earth.

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30:9

But now I am their music, and they have me for a by-word.

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30:10

And they stood aloof and abhorred me, and spared not to spit in my face.

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30:11

For he has opened his quiver and afflicted me: they also have cast off the restraint of my presence.

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30:12

They have risen up against [me] on the right hand of [their] offspring; they have stretched out their foot, and directed against me the ways of their destruction.

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30:13

My paths are ruined; for they have stripped off my raiment: he has shot at me with his weapons.

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30:14

And he has pleaded against me as he will: I am overwhelmed with pains.

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30:15

My pains return upon [me]; my hope is gone like the wind, and my safety as a cloud.

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30:16

Even now my life shall be poured forth upon me; and days of anguish seize me.

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30:17

And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed.

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30:18

With great force [my disease] has taken hold of my garment: it has compassed me as the collar of my coat.

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30:19

And thou hast counted me as clay; my portion is in dust and ashes.

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30:20

And I have cried to thee, but thou hearest me not: but they stood still, and observed me.

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30:21

They attacked me also without mercy: thou hast scourged me with a strong hand.

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30:22

And thou hast put me to grief, and hast cast me away from safety.

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30:23

For I know that death will destroy me: for the earth is the house [appointed] for every mortal.

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30:24

Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself, or at least ask another, and he should do this for me.

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30:25

Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.

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30:26

But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me.

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30:27

My belly boiled, and would not cease: the days of poverty prevented me.

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30:28

I went mourning without restraint: and I have stood and cried out in the assembly.

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30:29

I am become a brother of monsters, and a companion of ostriches.

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30:30

And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat.

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30:31

My harp also has been turned into mourning, and my song into my weeping.

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