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The Book of Job 30

30 “But now, men who are younger than I am make fun of me.

They are men whose fathers I would not even have hired to help my dogs guard my sheep!

2 And I would not hire any of those young men to work for me either.

They are already feeble.

3 No one hires them, so they are poor and go hungry and have become thin.

They have to eat roots

that they find in places where no crops have grown for a long time.

4 They look among bushes to find leaves that they can eat.

They pull up broom trees and eat their roots.

5 When they come near villages,

people shout at them, as they would at a thief,

to make them leave their area.

6 They have to live in riverbeds,

in holes in the ground,

and in caves on the sides of cliffs.

7 During the day they huddle under thorn bushes.

There they howl like animals because they are so hungry.

8 They are people without good sense,

and they have never achieved anything significant.

People force them to leave their towns.

9 But these despicable young men sing songs to make fun of me!

If they think God is punishing someone for being a sinner, they call that person ‘another Job.’

10 They hate me and they stay away from me,

but if we happen to meet, they spit right in my face.

11 I am not able to defend myself against these young men, because God has taken away my strength.

He has humiliated me.

So they can do whatever they want to me.

12 Gangs of these young men threaten me.

They shove me aside when they pass by.

They think of new ways to hurt me.

13 I am not able to escape from them,

even as they keep doing worse things to me.

No one else would do the things they do to me.

14 It is as if I were a city and they were an army that had broken through its wall

and sent in waves of troops to destroy the city.

15 I am afraid of many things.

I have no dignity left,

and I do not expect that I will ever get out of this situation.

16 I feel as if I am about to die,

but in the meantime, I am suffering greatly.

17 My body aches during the night.

I feel pain continually.

18 I have such a serious disease that my skin no longer looks the same.

It seems as if I will always be sick.

19 God has made me suffer so much that I have been sitting here on the ground.

I am even beginning to look like the dust and ashes in which I have been sitting.

20 Even though I pray to you, God, you do not respond.

I try to get your attention, but you do not do anything to help me.

21 You used to be kind to me, but you are not kind to me anymore.

You are using your mighty power to make me suffer.

22 It is as if you have sent a great wind to pick me up and carry me away.

It is as if you are making a violent storm blow me around.

23 Certainly I know that you are going to make me die.

That is what happens to everyone who ever lives.

24 However, when someone falls down, he certainly reaches out with his hand for help.

When someone is in trouble, he certainly calls for help.

25 So it is appropriate for me to ask for your help now, God.

After all, I wept for people myself when they were experiencing troubles.

I felt sorry for poor people.

26 I am asking for help because although I expected good things to happen to me, evil things happened instead.

It was as if I was waiting for dawn but another night started instead of a new day.

27 I am very distressed all the time.

I suffer during every day.

28 I look as if I have to work outside all day to make a living.

I humble myself by pleading openly for people to help me.

29 No one wants to come near me.

It is as if I am a jackal or ostrich living out in the wilderness.

30 My skin has become dark, and it is peeling off.

I have a fever that causes my body to feel as if it were burning up.

31 Previously, if you came to my house, you would hear musical instruments playing happy songs.

If you came now, you would only hear people crying and singing sad songs.

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