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Job 30

Job's Present State Is Humiliating

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"But now those younger than I  amock me, Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.

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"Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me? Vigor had perished from them.

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"From want and famine they are gaunt Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,

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Who pluck  1mallow by the bushes, And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.

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"They are driven from the community; They shout against them as against a thief,

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So that they dwell in dreadful  1valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.

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"Among the bushes they  1cry out; Under the nettles they are gathered together.

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1Fools, even  2those without a name, They were scourged from the land.

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"And now I have become their  1 ataunt, I have even become a  bbyword to them.

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"They abhor me and stand aloof from me, And they do not  1refrain from  aspitting at my face.

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"Because  1He has loosed  2His  3bowstring and  aafflicted me, They have cast off  bthe bridle before me.

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"On the right hand their  1brood arises; They  athrust aside my feet  band build up against me their ways of destruction.

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"They  abreak up my path, They profit  1from my destruction; No one restrains them.

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"As through a wide breach they come,  1Amid the tempest they roll on.

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aTerrors are turned against me; They pursue my  1honor as the wind, And my  2prosperity has passed away  blike a cloud.

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"And now  amy soul is poured out  1within me; Days of affliction have seized me.

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"At night it pierces  amy bones  1within me, And my gnawing pains take no rest.

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"By a great force my garment is  adistorted; It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

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"He has cast me into the  amire, And I have become like dust and ashes.

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"I  acry out to You for help, but You do not answer me; I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.

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"You have  1become cruel to me; With the might of Your hand You  apersecute me.

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"You  alift me up to the wind and cause me to ride; And You dissolve me in a storm.

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"For I know that You  awill bring me to death And to the  bhouse of meeting for all living.

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"Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, Or in his disaster therefore  acry out for help?

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"Have I not  awept for the  1one whose life is hard? Was not my soul grieved for  bthe needy?

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"When I  aexpected good, then evil came; When I waited for light,  bthen darkness came.

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1I am seething  awithin and cannot relax; Days of affliction confront me.

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"I go about  1 amourning without comfort; I stand up in the assembly and  bcry out for help.

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"I have become a brother to  ajackals And a companion of ostriches.

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"My  askin turns black  1on me, And my  bbones burn with  2fever.

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"Therefore my  aharp  1is turned to mourning, And my flute to the sound of those who weep.



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