# Job 30

- Translation: Berean Standard Bible
- Canonical: https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30
- License: Scripture: Berean Standard Bible (BSB), public domain. Source: Scriptoria (scriptoria.digital).

## Text

[1] “But now they mock me,
men younger than I am,
whose fathers I would have refused
to entrust with my sheep dogs. [2] What use to me was the strength of their hands,
since their vigor had left them? [3] Gaunt from poverty and hunger,
they gnawed the dry land,
and the desolate wasteland by night. [4] They plucked mallow among the shrubs,
and the roots of the broom tree were their food. [5] They were banished from among men,
shouted down like thieves, [6] so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis,
among the rocks and in holes in the ground. [7] They cried out among the shrubs
and huddled beneath the nettles. [8] A senseless and nameless brood,
they were driven off the land. [9] And now they mock me in song;
I have become a byword among them. [10] They abhor me and keep far from me;
they do not hesitate to spit in my face. [11] Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me,
they have cast off restraint in my presence. [12] The rabble arises at my right;
they lay snares for my feet
and build siege ramps against me. [13] They tear up my path;
they profit from my destruction,
with no one to restrain them. [14] They advance as through a wide breach;
through the ruins they keep rolling in. [15] Terrors are turned loose against me;
they drive away my dignity as by the wind,
and my prosperity has passed like a cloud. [16] And now my soul is poured out within me;
days of affliction grip me. [17] Night pierces my bones,
and my gnawing pains never rest. [18] With great force He grasps my garment;
He seizes me by the collar of my tunic. [19] He throws me into the mud,
and I have become like dust and ashes. [20] I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer;
when I stand up, You merely look at me. [21] You have ruthlessly turned on me;
You oppose me with Your strong hand. [22] You snatch me up into the wind
and drive me before it;
You toss me about in the storm. [23] Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death,
to the place appointed for all the living. [24] Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man
when he cries for help in his distress. [25] Have I not wept for those in trouble?
Has my soul not grieved for the needy? [26] But when I hoped for good, evil came;
when I looked for light, darkness fell. [27] I am churning within and cannot rest;
days of affliction confront me. [28] I go about blackened, but not by the sun.
I stand up in the assembly and cry for help. [29] I have become a brother of jackals,
a companion of ostriches. [30] My skin grows black and peels,
and my bones burn with fever. [31] My harp is tuned to mourning
and my flute to the sound of weeping.

## Each verse

- Job 30:1 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/1
- Job 30:2 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/2
- Job 30:3 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/3
- Job 30:4 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/4
- Job 30:5 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/5
- Job 30:6 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/6
- Job 30:7 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/7
- Job 30:8 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/8
- Job 30:9 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/9
- Job 30:10 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/10
- Job 30:11 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/11
- Job 30:12 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/12
- Job 30:13 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/13
- Job 30:14 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/14
- Job 30:15 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/15
- Job 30:16 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/16
- Job 30:17 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/17
- Job 30:18 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/18
- Job 30:19 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/19
- Job 30:20 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/20
- Job 30:21 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/21
- Job 30:22 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/22
- Job 30:23 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/23
- Job 30:24 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/24
- Job 30:25 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/25
- Job 30:26 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/26
- Job 30:27 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/27
- Job 30:28 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/28
- Job 30:29 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/29
- Job 30:30 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/30
- Job 30:31 — https://scriptoria.digital/en/bible/job/30/31