Job 30:1-14 (CJB) | TrulyRandomVerse

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"But now those younger than I hold me in derision, men whose fathers I wouldn't even have put with the dogs that guarded my sheep.

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What use to me was the strength in their hands? All their vigor had left them.

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Worn out by want and hunger, they gnaw the dry ground in the gloom of waste and desolation.

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They pluck saltwort and bitter leaves; these, with broom tree roots, are their food.

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They are driven away from society, with men shouting after them as after a thief,

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to live in gullies and vadis, in holes in the ground and caves in the rocks.

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Among the bushes they howl like beasts and huddle among the nettles,

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irresponsible nobodies driven from the land.

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"Now I have become their song; yes, I am a byword with them.

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They loathe me, they stand aloof from me; they don't hesitate to spit in my face!

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For God has loosened my bowstring and humbled me; they throw off restraint in my presence.

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At my right the street urchins attack, pushing me from place to place, besieging me with their ways of destruction,

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breaking up my path, furthering my calamity -even those who have no one to help them.

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They move in as through a wide gap; amid the ruin they roll on in waves.

Job 30:1-14