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Job - ch 30 v 1 - 20
- But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:
- The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.
- Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.
- And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.
- Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.
- They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel.
- They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted it delightful to be under the briers.
- The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.
- Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.
- They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face.
- For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath put a bridle into my mouth.
- At the right hand of my rising, my calamities forthwith arose: they have overthrown my feet, and have overwhelmed me with their paths as with waves.
- They have destroyed my ways, they have lain in wait against me, and they have prevailed, and there was none to help.
- They have rushed in upon me, as when a wall is broken, and a gate opened, and have rolled themselves down to my miseries.
- I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.
- And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me.
- In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.
- With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat.
- I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.
- I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.
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