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         <div class="label">30</div><div class="q1"><span class="content">  </span><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">&#8220;But now they mock me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">men younger than I,</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">whose fathers I would have disdained</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">to put with my sheep dogs.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="JOB.30.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.30.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">Of what use was the strength of their hands to me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.30.2"><span class="content">since their vigor had gone from them?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="JOB.30.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">Haggard from want and hunger,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="content">they roamed</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:3 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">gnawed</span></span></span><span class="content"> the parched land</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="content">in desolate wastelands at night.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="JOB.30.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.30.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">In the brush they gathered salt herbs,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.30.4"><span class="content">and their food</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:4 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">fuel</span></span></span><span class="content"> was the root of the broom bush.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="JOB.30.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.30.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">They were banished from human society,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.30.5"><span class="content">shouted at as if they were thieves.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="JOB.30.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.30.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">They were forced to live in the dry stream beds,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.30.6"><span class="content">among the rocks and in holes in the ground.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="JOB.30.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.30.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">They brayed among the bushes</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.30.7"><span class="content">and huddled in the undergrowth.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="JOB.30.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.30.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">A base and nameless brood,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.30.8"><span class="content">they were driven out of the land.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="JOB.30.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.30.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">&#8220;And now those young men mock me in song;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.30.9"><span class="content">I have become a byword among them.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="JOB.30.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.30.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">They detest me and keep their distance;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.30.10"><span class="content">they do not hesitate to spit in my face.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="JOB.30.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.30.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.30.11"><span class="content">they throw off restraint in my presence.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="JOB.30.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">On my right the tribe</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:12 </span><span class="ft">The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.</span></span></span><span class="content"> attacks;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="content">they lay snares for my feet,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="content">they build their siege ramps against me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="JOB.30.12"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">They break up my road;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="content">they succeed in destroying me.</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="content">&#8216;No one can help him,&#8217; they say.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="JOB.30.13"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.30.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">They advance as through a gaping breach;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.30.14"><span class="content">amid the ruins they come rolling in.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="JOB.30.14"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="label">15</span><span class="content">Terrors overwhelm me;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="content">my dignity is driven away as by the wind,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="content">my safety vanishes like a cloud.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v15" data-usfm="JOB.30.15"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.30.16"><span class="label">16</span><span class="content">&#8220;And now my life ebbs away;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.30.16"><span class="content">days of suffering grip me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v16" data-usfm="JOB.30.16"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.30.17"><span class="label">17</span><span class="content">Night pierces my bones;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.30.17"><span class="content">my gnawing pains never rest.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v17" data-usfm="JOB.30.17"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.30.18"><span class="label">18</span><span class="content">In his great power God becomes like clothing to me</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">30:18 </span><span class="ft">Hebrew; Septuagint </span><span class="fqa">power he grasps my clothing</span></span></span><span class="content">;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.30.18"><span class="content">he binds me like the neck of my garment.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v18" data-usfm="JOB.30.18"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.30.19"><span class="label">19</span><span class="content">He throws me into the mud,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.30.19"><span class="content">and I am reduced to dust and ashes.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v19" data-usfm="JOB.30.19"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.30.20"><span class="label">20</span><span class="content">&#8220;I cry out to you, God, but you do not answer;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.30.20"><span class="content">I stand up, but you merely look at me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v20" data-usfm="JOB.30.20"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.30.21"><span class="label">21</span><span class="content">You turn on me ruthlessly;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.30.21"><span class="content">with the might of your hand you attack me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v21" data-usfm="JOB.30.21"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.30.22"><span class="label">22</span><span class="content">You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.30.22"><span class="content">you toss me about in the storm.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v22" data-usfm="JOB.30.22"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.30.23"><span class="label">23</span><span class="content">I know you will bring me down to death,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.30.23"><span class="content">to the place appointed for all the living.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v23" data-usfm="JOB.30.23"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.30.24"><span class="label">24</span><span class="content">&#8220;Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.30.24"><span class="content">when he cries for help in his distress.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v24" data-usfm="JOB.30.24"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.30.25"><span class="label">25</span><span class="content">Have I not wept for those in trouble?</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.30.25"><span class="content">Has not my soul grieved for the poor?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v25" data-usfm="JOB.30.25"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.30.26"><span class="label">26</span><span class="content">Yet when I hoped for good, evil came;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.30.26"><span class="content">when I looked for light, then came darkness.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v26" data-usfm="JOB.30.26"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.30.27"><span class="label">27</span><span class="content">The churning inside me never stops;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.30.27"><span class="content">days of suffering confront me.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v27" data-usfm="JOB.30.27"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.30.28"><span class="label">28</span><span class="content">I go about blackened, but not by the sun;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.30.28"><span class="content">I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v28" data-usfm="JOB.30.28"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.30.29"><span class="label">29</span><span class="content">I have become a brother of jackals,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.30.29"><span class="content">a companion of owls.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v29" data-usfm="JOB.30.29"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.30.30"><span class="label">30</span><span class="content">My skin grows black and peels;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.30.30"><span class="content">my body burns with fever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v30" data-usfm="JOB.30.30"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.30.31"><span class="label">31</span><span class="content">My lyre is tuned to mourning,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v31" data-usfm="JOB.30.31"><span class="content">and my pipe to the sound of wailing.</span></span></div><div class="b"></div>
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