New American Standard Bible 1995

Job 30:1-14

1“But now those younger than I 1mock me, Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.2Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me? Vigor had perished from them.3From want and famine they are gaunt Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,4Who pluck 2mallow by the bushes, And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.5They are driven from the community; They shout against them as against a thief,6So that they dwell in dreadful 3valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.7Among the bushes they 4cry out; Under the nettles they are gathered together.8 5Fools, even 6those without a name, They were scourged from the land.

9“And now I have become their 7 8taunt, I have even become a 9byword to them.10They abhor me and stand aloof from me, And they do not 10refrain from 11spitting at my face.11Because 12He has loosed 13His 14bowstring and 15afflicted me, They have cast off 16the bridle before me.12On the right hand their 17brood arises; They 18thrust aside my feet 19and build up against me their ways of destruction.13They 20break up my path, They profit 21from my destruction; No one restrains them.14As through a wide breach they come, 22Amid the tempest they roll on.

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Notes

1. Job 30:1 Job 12:4 ↩
2. Job 30:4 I.e. plant of the salt marshes ↩
3. Job 30:6 Or wadis ↩
4. Job 30:7 Or bray ↩
5. Job 30:8 Lit Sons of fools ↩
6. Job 30:8 Lit sons ↩
7. Job 30:9 Lit song ↩
8. Job 30:9 Job 12:4 ↩
9. Job 30:9 Job 17:6; Ps 69:11; Lam 3:14, 63 ↩
10. Job 30:10 Lit withhold spit from my face ↩
11. Job 30:10 Num 12:14; Deut 25:9; Job 17:6; Is 50:6; Matt 26:67 ↩
12. Job 30:11 Or they ↩
13. Job 30:11 Some mss read my ↩
14. Job 30:11 Or cord ↩
15. Job 30:11 Ruth 1:21; Ps 88:7 ↩
16. Job 30:11 Ps 32:9 ↩
17. Job 30:12 Possibly sprout or offspring ↩
18. Job 30:12 Ps 140:4, 5 ↩
19. Job 30:12 Job 19:12 ↩
20. Job 30:13 Is 3:12 ↩
21. Job 30:13 Lit for ↩
22. Job 30:14 Lit Under ↩

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