Job 30:1-15

Job 30:1-15

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“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to entrust with my sheep dogs.
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What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?
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Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.
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They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.
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They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,
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so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
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They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.
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A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.
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And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
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They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
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Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.
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The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.
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They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.
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They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.
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Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
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