Job 30:1-10

1“But now I am mocked by people younger than I, by young men whose fathers are not worthy to run with my sheepdogs.

2A lot of good they are to me— those worn-out wretches!

3They are gaunt from poverty and hunger. They claw the dry ground in desolate wastelands.

4They pluck wild greens from among the bushes and eat from the roots of broom trees.

5They are driven from human society, and people shout at them as if they were thieves.

6So now they live in frightening ravines, in caves and among the rocks.

7They sound like animals howling among the bushes, huddled together beneath the nettles.

8They are nameless fools, outcasts from society.

9“And now they mock me with vulgar songs! They taunt me!

10They despise me and won’t come near me, except to spit in my face.