JobJudaism / Hebrew BibleAccepted ScriptureBiblical Hebrew / AramaicShareJob 30Darby - EnglishMoreVersion - 9 availableWorld English BibleKing James VersionAmerican Standard VersionDarby BibleYoung's Literal TranslationWebster BibleGeneva BibleDouay-Rheims ChallonerReina-Valera 1909WEBKJVASVDarbyYLTWebsterGenevaDouayRV1909LanguageEnglishEspañol‹Job 1Job 2Job 3Job 4Job 5Job 6Job 7Job 8Job 9Job 10Job 11Job 12Job 13Job 14Job 15Job 16Job 17Job 18Job 19Job 20Job 21Job 22Job 23Job 24Job 25Job 26Job 27Job 28Job 29Job 30Job 31Job 32Job 33Job 34Job 35Job 36Job 37Job 38Job 39Job 40Job 41Job 42›Job 30ListenPlay this chapter in spoken English.Save chapterListen to chapter1But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. 2Yea, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished? 3Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert: 4They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food. 5They are driven forth from among [men] — they cry after them as after a thief — 6To dwell in gloomy gorges, in caves of the earth and the rocks: 7They bray among the bushes; under the brambles they are gathered together: 8Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land. 9And now I am their song, yea, I am their byword. 10They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, yea, they spare not to spit in my face. 11For he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me; so they cast off the bridle before me. 12At [my] right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways; 13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, without any to help them; 14They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward. 15Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud. 16And now my soul is poured out in me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17The night pierceth through my bones [and detacheth them] from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest: 18By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat. 19He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. 20I cry unto thee, and thou answerest me not; I stand up, and thou lookest at me. 21Thou art changed to a cruel one to me; with the strength of thy hand thou pursuest me. 22Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance. 23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living. 24Indeed, no prayer [availeth] when he stretcheth out [his] hand: though they cry when he destroyeth. 25Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy? 26For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness. 27My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me. 28I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation. 29I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches. 30My skin is become black [and falleth] off me, and my bones are parched with heat. 31My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers. ‹Previous chapterJob 29Next chapterJob 31›Similar passagesBy tradition and source labelFind similarCompare selectedCompare with similarAsk Deep ThoughtSelect passages to search for parallels.VersionsJob 30 across 9 versionsShow all 9WEB - World English BibleKJV - King James VersionASV - American Standard VersionDarby - Darby BibleYLT - Young's Literal TranslationWebster - Webster BibleGeneva - Geneva BibleDouay - Douay-Rheims ChallonerRV1909 - Reina-Valera 1909Tap any verse to select it, then compare selected passages or ask Deep Thought. Public Domain