Job 30
Reading Job chapter 30 in the World English Bible, public-domain text from 2000.
Verses 1–10
1 “But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy 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 tree are their food.
5 They are driven out from amongst men. They cry after them as after a thief,
6 so that they live in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
7 They bray amongst the bushes. They are gathered together under the nettles.
8 They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked 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.
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