Job 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. ¹ ‡ Job 12:4Luk 23:35Psa 35:15-16Psa 69:122Ki 2:23Act 17:5Isa 3:5Job 19:13-19 +72 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? 3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. ^{2 3} ‡ Job 24:5Heb 11:38Job 24:13-16 4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. ‡ Luk 15:162Ki 4:38-39Amo 7:14 5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;) ‡ Dan 4:25Dan 4:32-33Gen 4:12-14Psa 109:10 6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. ⁴ ‡ 1Sa 22:1-2Jdg 6:2Isa 2:19Rev 6:15 7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. ‡ Gen 16:12Job 11:12Job 6:5 8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. ⁵ ‡ Pro 16:22Isa 32:6Jer 7:18Job 40:4Mrk 6:24Pro 1:22Pro 1:72Ch 22:3 +49 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. ‡ Job 17:6Lam 3:63Lam 3:14Job 12:4Psa 35:15-16Psa 69:11-12Psa 44:14 10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. ⁶ ‡ Isa 50:6Mat 26:67Num 12:14Psa 88:8Deu 25:9Mat 27:30Job 17:6Job 19:13-14 +511 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. ‡ Job 12:21Job 12:18Rut 1:212Sa 16:5-8Jas 1:26Mat 26:67-68Mat 27:39-44Psa 32:9 +112 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. ‡ Job 19:12Isa 3:5Job 19:18Psa 140:4-5 13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. ‡ Isa 3:12Psa 69:26Zec 1:15 14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. ‡ Isa 8:7-8Job 22:16Psa 18:4Psa 69:14-15

15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. ⁷ ‡ Hos 13:3Job 6:4Isa 44:22Job 31:23Psa 55:4-5Psa 88:15Hos 6:4Job 10:16 +416 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. ‡ Psa 42:4Psa 22:14Isa 53:12Job 3:24Psa 40:121Sa 1:15 17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. ‡ Isa 38:13Job 33:19-21Job 7:4Psa 22:2Psa 6:2-6Psa 38:2-8 18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. ‡ Job 19:20Job 2:7Job 7:5Isa 1:5-6Psa 38:5 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. ‡ Job 9:31Gen 18:27Job 42:6Psa 69:14Jer 38:6Psa 69:1-2Job 2:8 20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. ‡ Job 19:7Lam 3:8Psa 22:2Psa 80:4-5Job 27:9Lam 3:44Mat 15:23 21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. ^{8 9} ‡ Job 10:14-17Job 16:9-141Pe 5:6Job 10:3Job 19:6-9Jer 30:14Job 13:25-28Job 19:22 +522 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance. ¹⁰ ‡ Job 27:21Psa 1:4Ezk 5:2Hos 13:3Hos 4:19Isa 17:13Jer 4:11-12Job 21:18 +323 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. ‡ Ecc 12:5-7Ecc 8:8Ecc 9:5Heb 9:272Sa 14:14Gen 3:19Job 14:5Job 21:33 +324 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. ¹¹ ‡ Jdg 5:31Job 19:7Mat 27:39-44Psa 35:25 25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? ¹² ‡ Rom 12:15Psa 35:13-14Jer 13:172Co 9:9Dan 4:27Isa 58:7-8Jer 18:20Jhn 11:35 +926 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. ‡ Jer 8:15Jer 14:19Job 3:25-26Isa 50:10Job 18:6Job 19:8Job 23:17Mic 1:12 +427 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. ‡ Lam 2:11Jer 31:20Jer 4:19Lam 1:20Psa 22:4 28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. ‡ Psa 38:6Psa 42:9Psa 43:2Isa 53:3-4Job 19:7Lam 3:1-3 29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. ¹³ ‡ Mic 1:8Psa 102:6Job 17:14Mal 1:3Psa 44:19Isa 13:21-22Isa 38:14 30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. ‡ Lam 4:8Psa 102:3Psa 119:83Lam 3:4Lam 5:10 31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. ‡ Lam 5:15Isa 21:4Dan 6:18Ecc 3:4Isa 22:12Isa 24:7-9Psa 137:1-4