1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
King James Bible |
Youngs Literal Translation |
|
| 30:1 | But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock. | And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock. |
| 30:2 | Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? | Also -- the power of their hands, why `is it' to me? On them hath old age perished. |
| 30:3 | For want and famine they were |
With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste, |
| 30:4 | Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. | Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots `is' their food. |
| 30:5 | They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;) | From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief), |
| 30:6 | To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in |
In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts. |
| 30:7 | Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. | Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together. |
| 30:8 | They were children of fools, yea, children of |
Sons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land. |
| 30:9 | And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. | And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword. |
| 30:10 | They abhor me, they flee far from me, |
They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit. |
| 30:11 | Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. | Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away. |
| 30:12 | Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. | On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity. |
| 30:13 | They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. | They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, `He hath no helper.' |
| 30:14 | They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. | As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves. |
| 30:15 | Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue |
He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away. |
| 30:16 | And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. | And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction. |
| 30:17 | My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. | At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down. |
| 30:18 | By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. | By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me. |
| 30:19 | He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. | Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes. |
| 30:20 | I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. | I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me. |
| 30:21 | Thou art |
Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppresest me. |
| 30:22 | Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my |
Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest -- Thou levellest me. |
| 30:23 | For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. | For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And `to' the house appointed for all living. |
| 30:24 | Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the |
Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety. |
| 30:25 | Did not I weep |
Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy. |
| 30:26 | When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. | When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh. |
| 30:27 | My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. | My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction. |
| 30:28 | I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. | Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry. |
| 30:29 | I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to |
A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich. |
| 30:30 | My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. | My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat, |
| 30:31 | My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. | And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping. |