Job 30

1“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.Cross-references: 2Ki 2:23 · Job 12:4 · Job 19:13 · Job 29:8 · Ps 35:15 · Ps 69:12 · +9 more

2Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?

3They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.Cross-references: Job 24:5 · Job 24:13 · Heb 11:38

4They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food.Cross-references: 2Ki 4:38 · Amos 7:14 · Luke 15:16

5They are driven out from among men. They cry after them as after a thief,Cross-references: Gen 4:12 · Ps 109:10 · Dan 4:25 · Dan 4:32

6so that they live in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.Cross-references: Judg 6:2 · 1Sam 22:1 · Isa 2:19 · Rev 6:15

7They bray among the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles.Cross-references: Gen 16:12 · Job 6:5 · Job 11:12

8They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. They were flogged out of the land.Cross-references: 2Ki 8:18 · 2Ki 8:27 · 2Chr 22:3 · Job 40:4 · Ps 15:4 · Ps 49:10 · +6 more

9“Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them.Cross-references: Job 12:4 · Job 17:6 · Ps 35:15 · Ps 44:14 · Ps 69:11 · Lam 3:14 · +1 more

10They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.Cross-references: Num 12:14 · Deut 25:9 · Job 17:6 · Job 19:13 · Job 19:19 · Job 42:6 · +7 more

11For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me.Cross-references: Ruth 1:21 · 2Sam 16:5 · Job 12:18 · Job 12:21 · Ps 32:9 · Ps 35:21 · +3 more

12On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet. They cast their ways of destruction up against me.Cross-references: Job 19:12 · Job 19:18 · Ps 140:4 · Isa 3:5

13They mar my path. They promote my destruction without anyone’s help.Cross-references: Ps 69:26 · Isa 3:12 · Zech 1:15

14As through a wide breach they come. They roll themselves in amid the ruin.Cross-references: Job 22:16 · Ps 18:4 · Ps 69:14 · Isa 8:7

15Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.Cross-references: Job 3:25 · Job 6:4 · Job 7:9 · Job 7:14 · Job 9:27 · Job 10:16 · +6 more

16“Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of me.Cross-references: 1Sam 1:15 · Job 3:24 · Ps 22:14 · Ps 40:12 · Ps 42:4 · Isa 53:12

17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.Cross-references: Job 7:4 · Job 33:19 · Ps 6:2 · Ps 22:2 · Ps 38:2 · Isa 38:13

18My garment is disfigured by great force. It binds me about as the collar of my tunic.Cross-references: Job 2:7 · Job 7:5 · Job 19:20 · Ps 38:5 · Isa 1:5

19He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.Cross-references: Gen 18:27 · Job 2:8 · Job 9:31 · Job 42:6 · Ps 69:1 · Ps 69:14 · +1 more

20I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.Cross-references: Job 19:7 · Job 27:9 · Ps 22:2 · Ps 80:4 · Lam 3:8 · Lam 3:44 · +1 more

21You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.Cross-references: Job 6:9 · Job 7:20 · Job 10:3 · Job 10:14 · Job 13:25 · Job 16:9 · +7 more

22You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.Cross-references: Job 9:17 · Job 21:18 · Job 27:21 · Ps 1:4 · Ps 18:10 · Ps 104:3 · +5 more

23For I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.Cross-references: Gen 3:19 · 2Sam 14:14 · Job 3:19 · Job 9:22 · Job 10:8 · Job 14:5 · +5 more

24“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?Cross-references: Judg 5:31 · Job 19:7 · Ps 35:25 · Matt 27:39

25Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?Cross-references: Job 24:4 · Job 31:16 · Ps 12:1 · Ps 35:13 · Prov 14:21 · Prov 14:31 · +11 more

26When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.Cross-references: Job 3:25 · Job 18:6 · Job 18:18 · Job 19:8 · Job 23:17 · Job 29:18 · +6 more

27My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. Days of affliction have come on me.Cross-references: Ps 22:4 · Jer 4:19 · Jer 31:20 · Lam 1:20 · Lam 2:11

28I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.Cross-references: Job 19:7 · Ps 38:6 · Ps 42:9 · Ps 43:2 · Isa 53:3 · Lam 3:1

29I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches.Cross-references: Job 17:14 · Ps 44:19 · Ps 102:6 · Isa 13:21 · Isa 38:14 · Mic 1:8 · +1 more

30My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.Cross-references: Ps 102:3 · Ps 119:83 · Lam 3:4 · Lam 4:8 · Lam 5:10

31Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.Cross-references: Ps 137:1 · Eccl 3:4 · Isa 21:4 · Isa 22:12 · Isa 24:7 · Lam 5:15 · +1 more