301But 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.+2Yea, whereto
might the strength of their hands
profit
me, in whom old age was perished?+3For want and famine
they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.+4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots
for their meat.+5They were driven forth from among
men, (they cried after them as
after a thief;)+6To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys,
in caves of the earth, and
in the rocks.+7Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.+8They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.+9And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.+10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.+11Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.+12Upon
my right
hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.+13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.+14They came
upon me as a wide breaking in
of waters:
in the desolation they rolled themselves
upon me.+
Job’s Prosperity Becomes Calamity
15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.+16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.+17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.+18By the great force
of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.+19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.+20I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me
not.+21Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.+22Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride
upon it,
and dissolvest my substance.+23For I know
that thou wilt bring me
to death, and
to the house appointed for all living.+24Howbeit he will not stretch out
his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.+25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was
not my soul grieved for the poor?+26When I looked for good, then evil came
unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.+27My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.+28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up,
and I cried in the congregation.+29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.+30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.+31My harp also is
turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.+
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