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New American Standard Bible 2020

Job 30

Job’s Present State Is Humiliating

1“But now those who are younger than I 1mock me, Whose fathers I refused 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 poverty and famine they are gaunt, They who gnaw at the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,4Who pluck saltweed 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 live on the slopes of ravines, In holes in the ground and among the rocks.7Among the bushes they 2cry out; Under the weeds they are gathered together.8Worthless 3fellows, even 4those without a name, They were cast out from the land.

9“And now I have become their 56taunt, And I have become a 78byword to them.10They loathe me and stand aloof from me, And they do not 9refrain from 10spitting in my face.11Because He has undone 11my 12bowstring and 13afflicted me, They have cast off 14the bridle before me.12On the right hand their 15mob arises; They 16push aside my feet 17and pile up their ways of destruction against me.13They 18break up my path, They promote my destruction; No one restrains them.14As through a wide gap they come, 19Amid the storm they roll on.1520Sudden terrors are turned upon me; They chase away my dignity like the wind, And my 21prosperity has passed away 22like a cloud.

16“And now 23my soul is poured out 24within me; Days of misery have seized me.17At night it pierces 25my bones 26within me, And my gnawing pains do not rest.18By a great force my garment is 27distorted; It ties me up like the collar of my coat.19He has thrown me into the 28mire, And I have become like dust and ashes.20I 29cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me; I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.21You have 30become cruel to me; With the strength of Your hand You 31persecute me.22You 32lift me up to the wind and make me ride it; And You dissolve me in a storm.23For I know that You 33will bring me to death, And to the 34house of meeting for all living.

24“Yet does one in a heap of ruins not reach out with his hand, Or in his disaster does he not 35cry out for help?25Have I not 36wept for the 37one whose life is hard? Was my soul not grieved for 38the needy?26When I 39expected good, evil came; When I waited for light, 40darkness came.2741I am seething 42within and cannot rest; Days of misery confront me.28I go about 4344mourning without comfort; I stand up in the assembly and 45cry out for help.29I have become a brother to 46jackals, And a companion of ostriches.30My 47skin turns black 48on me, And my 49bones burn with 50fever.31Therefore my 51harp 52is turned to mourning, And my flute to the sound of those who weep.

Notes

  1. 1. Job 30:1 Job 12:4 ↩
  2. 2. Job 30:7 Or bray ↩
  3. 3. Job 30:8 Lit sons ↩
  4. 4. Job 30:8 Lit sons ↩
  5. 5. Job 30:9 Lit song ↩
  6. 6. Job 30:9 Job 12:4 ↩
  7. 7. Job 30:9 I.e., prob. a word of insult ↩
  8. 8. Job 30:9 Job 17:6; Ps 69:11; Lam 3:14, 63 ↩
  9. 9. Job 30:10 Lit withhold spit from my face ↩
  10. 10. Job 30:10 Num 12:14; Deut 25:9; Job 17:6; Is 50:6; Matt 26:67 ↩
  11. 11. Job 30:11 Some mss His ↩
  12. 12. Job 30:11 Or cord ↩
  13. 13. Job 30:11 Ruth 1:21; Ps 88:7 ↩
  14. 14. Job 30:11 Ps 32:9 ↩
  15. 15. Job 30:12 Or youth arise ↩
  16. 16. Job 30:12 Ps 140:4, 5 ↩
  17. 17. Job 30:12 Job 19:12 ↩
  18. 18. Job 30:13 Is 3:12 ↩
  19. 19. Job 30:14 Lit Under ↩
  20. 20. Job 30:15 Job 3:25; 31:23; Ps 55:3-5 ↩
  21. 21. Job 30:15 Or welfare ↩
  22. 22. Job 30:15 Job 7:9; Hos 13:3 ↩
  23. 23. Job 30:16 1 Sam 1:15; Job 3:24; Ps 22:14; 42:4; Is 53:12 ↩
  24. 24. Job 30:16 Lit upon ↩
  25. 25. Job 30:17 Job 30:30 ↩
  26. 26. Job 30:17 Lit from upon ↩
  27. 27. Job 30:18 Job 2:7 ↩
  28. 28. Job 30:19 Ps 69:2, 14 ↩
  29. 29. Job 30:20 Job 19:7 ↩
  30. 30. Job 30:21 Lit turned to be ↩
  31. 31. Job 30:21 Job 10:3; 16:9, 14; 19:6, 22 ↩
  32. 32. Job 30:22 Job 9:17; 27:21 ↩
  33. 33. Job 30:23 Job 9:22; 10:8 ↩
  34. 34. Job 30:23 Job 3:19; Eccl 12:5 ↩
  35. 35. Job 30:24 Job 19:7 ↩
  36. 36. Job 30:25 Ps 35:13, 14; Rom 12:15 ↩
  37. 37. Job 30:25 Lit hard of day ↩
  38. 38. Job 30:25 Job 24:4 ↩
  39. 39. Job 30:26 Job 3:25, 26; Jer 8:15 ↩
  40. 40. Job 30:26 Job 19:8 ↩
  41. 41. Job 30:27 Lit My inward parts are boiling ↩
  42. 42. Job 30:27 Lam 2:11 ↩
  43. 43. Job 30:28 Or blackened, but not by the heat of the sun ↩
  44. 44. Job 30:28 Job 30:31; Ps 38:6; 42:9; 43:2 ↩
  45. 45. Job 30:28 Job 19:7 ↩
  46. 46. Job 30:29 Ps 44:19; Mic 1:8 ↩
  47. 47. Job 30:30 Job 2:7 ↩
  48. 48. Job 30:30 Lit from upon ↩
  49. 49. Job 30:30 Ps 102:3 ↩
  50. 50. Job 30:30 Lit heat ↩
  51. 51. Job 30:31 Is 24:8 ↩
  52. 52. Job 30:31 Lit becomes ↩

Commentaries on Job 30

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