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Job 30 📜 📕 ↷
Job's Honor Turned to Contempt
1 BUT now they of younger time scorn me, whose fathers I vouchsafed not to put with the dogs of my flock:📜💬📚
2 The force of whose hands was to me as nothing, & they were thought unworthy of life it-self.📜💬📚
3 Barren with poverty and famine, who gnawed in the wilderness, ill favoured by calamity and misery.📜💬📚
4 And they did eat grass, and the barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their meat.📜💬📚
5 Who taking these things violently out of the valleys, when they had found every thing, they ran to them with a cry.📜💬📚
6 They dwelt in the deserts of torrents, and in caves of the earth, or upon gravel.📜💬📚
7 Who rejoiced among these kind of things, and counted it delicacies to be under the briers.📜💬📚
8 The children of foolish and base men, and in the earth not appearing at all.📜💬📚
9 Now am I turned into their song, and become a proverb with them.📜💬📚
10 They abhor me, and fly far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face.📜💬📚
11 For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath put a bridle into my mouth.📜💬📚
12 At the right hand of me rising, my calamities forthwith arose: they have overthrown my feet, & as with waves have oppressed with their paths.📜💬📚
13 They have dissipated my ways, they have lien in wait against me, and they have prevailed, and there was not that would help.📜💬📚
14 As when a wall is broken, and the gate opened, they have broken violently upon me, and are come tumbling down to my miseries.📜💬📚
Job's Prosperity Becomes Calamity
15 I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away as a cloud.📜💬📚
16 And now my soul withereth in my self, and the days of affliction possess me.📜💬📚
17 In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that eat me, sleep not.📜💬📚
18 In the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as it were with the collar of a coat.📜💬📚
19 I am compared to dirt, and am resembled to embers and ashes.📜💬📚
20 I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand, and thou doest not respect me.📜💬📚
21 Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.📜💬📚
22 Thou didst lift me up, and setting me as it were upon the wind thou hast mightily dashed me.📜💬📚
23 I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.📜💬📚
24 But yet not to my consumption doest thou send forth thy hand: and if they shall fall, thou wilt save.📜💬📚
25 I wept sometime upon him that was afflicted, & my soul had compassion on the poor.📜💬📚
26 I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: tarried for light, and darkness brake forth.📜💬📚
27 My inner parts have boiled without any rest, the days of affliction have prevented me.📜💬📚
28 I went mourning without fury, rising up, I cried in the multitude.📜💬📚
29 I was the brother of dragons, and fellow of Ostriches:📜💬📚
30 My skin is made black upon me, and my bones are dried with heat.📜💬📚
31 My harp is turned into mourning, and my instrument into the voice of weepers.📜💬📚
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