{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/dbt/job/30","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T02:16:46.007Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DBT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":30,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":29,"nextChapter":31,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":31},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"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."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Yea, whereto should the strength of their hands profit me, men in whom vigour hath perished?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"They are driven forth from among men they cry after them as after a thief —"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"To dwell in gloomy gorges, in caves of the earth and the rocks:"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"They bray among the bushes; under the brambles they are gathered together:"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And now I am their song, yea, I am their byword."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, yea, they spare not to spit in my face."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me; so they cast off the bridle before me."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"At my right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, without any to help them;"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And now my soul is poured out in me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"The night pierceth through my bones and detacheth them from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"I cry unto thee, and thou answerest me not; I stand up, and thou lookest at me."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Thou art changed to a cruel one to me; with the strength of thy hand thou pursuest me."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Indeed, no prayer availeth when he stretcheth out his hand: though they cry when he destroyeth."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy?"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"My skin is become black and falleth off me, and my bones are parched with heat."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"My harp also is turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 30 (DBT)","markdown":"[Job 30](https://primebible.com/dbt/job/30)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DBT. https://primebible.com/dbt/job/30 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}