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Job - ch 30 v 1 - 20
- But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
- Yea, whereto should the strength of their hands profit me, men in whom vigour hath perished?
- Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:
- They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
- They are driven forth from among men -- they cry after them as after a thief --
- To dwell in gloomy gorges, in caves of the earth and the rocks:
- They bray among the bushes; under the brambles they are gathered together:
- Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.
- And now I am their song, yea, I am their byword.
- They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, yea, they spare not to spit in my face.
- For he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me; so they cast off the bridle before me.
- At my right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;
- They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, without any to help them;
- They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.
- Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.
- And now my soul is poured out in me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
- The night pierceth through my bones and detacheth them from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:
- By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.
- He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
- I cry unto thee, and thou answerest me not; I stand up, and thou lookest at me.
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