“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, Job 12:4Luk 23:35Psa 35:15-16Psa 69:122Ki 2:23Act 17:5Isa 3:5Job 19:13-19
whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.
Of what use is the strength of their hands to me,
men in whom ripe age has perished?
They are gaunt from lack and famine. Job 24:5Heb 11:38Job 24:13-16
They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation.
They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. Luk 15:162Ki 4:38-39Amo 7:14
The roots of the broom tree are their food.
They are driven out from among men. Dan 4:25Dan 4:32-33Gen 4:12-14Psa 109:10
They cry after them as after a thief,
so that they live in frightful valleys, 1Sa 22:1-2Jdg 6:2Isa 2:19Rev 6:15
and in holes of the earth and of the rocks.
They bray among the bushes. Gen 16:12Job 11:12Job 6:5
They are gathered together under the nettles.
They are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men. Pro 16:22Isa 32:6Jer 7:18Job 40:4Mrk 6:24Pro 1:22Pro 1:72Ch 22:3
They were flogged out of the land.
“Now I have become their song. Job 17:6Lam 3:63Lam 3:14Job 12:4Psa 35:15-16Psa 69:11-12Psa 44:14
Yes, I am a byword to them.
They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, Isa 50:6Mat 26:67Num 12:14Psa 88:8Deu 25:9Mat 27:30Job 17:6Job 19:13-14
and don’t hesitate to spit in my face.
For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; Job 12:21Job 12:18Rut 1:212Sa 16:5-8Jas 1:26Mat 26:67-68Mat 27:39-44Psa 32:9
and they have thrown off restraint before me.
On my right hand rise the rabble. Job 19:12Isa 3:5Job 19:18Psa 140:4-5
They thrust aside my feet.
They cast their ways of destruction up against me.
They mar my path. Isa 3:12Psa 69:26Zec 1:15
They promote my destruction
without anyone’s help.
As through a wide breach they come. Isa 8:7-8Job 22:16Psa 18:4Psa 69:14-15
They roll themselves in amid the ruin.
Terrors have turned on me. Hos 13:3Job 6:4Isa 44:22Job 31:23Psa 55:4-5Psa 88:15Hos 6:4Job 10:16
They chase my honor as the wind.
My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
“Now my soul is poured out within me. Psa 42:4Psa 22:14Isa 53:12Job 3:24Psa 40:121Sa 1:15
Days of affliction have taken hold of me.
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, Isa 38:13Job 33:19-21Job 7:4Psa 22:2Psa 6:2-6Psa 38:2-8
and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
My garment is disfigured by great force. Job 19:20Job 2:7Job 7:5Isa 1:5-6Psa 38:5
It binds me about as the collar of my tunic.
He has cast me into the mire. Job 9:31Gen 18:27Job 42:6Psa 69:14Jer 38:6Psa 69:1-2Job 2:8
I have become like dust and ashes.
I cry to you, and you do not answer me. Job 19:7Lam 3:8Psa 22:2Psa 80:4-5Job 27:9Lam 3:44Mat 15:23
I stand up, and you gaze at me.
You have turned to be cruel to me. Job 10:14-17Job 16:9-141Pe 5:6Job 10:3Job 19:6-9Jer 30:14Job 13:25-28Job 19:22
With the might of your hand you persecute me.
You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. Job 27:21Psa 1:4Ezk 5:2Hos 13:3Hos 4:19Isa 17:13Jer 4:11-12Job 21:18
You dissolve me in the storm.
For I know that you will bring me to death, Ecc 12:5-7Ecc 8:8Ecc 9:5Heb 9:272Sa 14:14Gen 3:19Job 14:5Job 21:33
to the house appointed for all living.
“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Jdg 5:31Job 19:7Mat 27:39-44Psa 35:25
Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Rom 12:15Psa 35:13-14Jer 13:172Co 9:9Dan 4:27Isa 58:7-8Jer 18:20Jhn 11:35
Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
When I looked for good, then evil came. Jer 8:15Jer 14:19Job 3:25-26Isa 50:10Job 18:6Job 19:8Job 23:17Mic 1:12
When I waited for light, darkness came.
My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. Lam 2:11Jer 31:20Jer 4:19Lam 1:20Psa 22:4
Days of affliction have come on me.
I go mourning without the sun. Psa 38:6Psa 42:9Psa 43:2Isa 53:3-4Job 19:7Lam 3:1-3
I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
I am a brother to jackals, Mic 1:8Psa 102:6Job 17:14Mal 1:3Psa 44:19Isa 13:21-22Isa 38:14
and a companion to ostriches.
My skin grows black and peels from me. Lam 4:8Psa 102:3Psa 119:83Lam 3:4Lam 5:10
My bones are burned with heat.
Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, Lam 5:15Isa 21:4Dan 6:18Ecc 3:4Isa 22:12Isa 24:7-9Psa 137:1-4
and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.