{"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/drb/job/30","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T18:18:14.553Z"},"reference":{"translation":"DRB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":30,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":29,"nextChapter":31,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":31},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock: "},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself. "},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery. "},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food. "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry. "},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel. "},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted it delightful to be under the briers. "},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth. "},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword. "},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face. "},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath put a bridle into my mouth. "},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"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. "},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"They have destroyed my ways, they have lain in wait against me, and they have prevailed, and there was none to help. "},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"They have rushed in upon me, as when a wall is broken, and a gate opened, and have rolled themselves down to my miseries. "},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud. "},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me. "},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep. "},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat. "},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes. "},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me. "},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me. "},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me. "},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth. "},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save. "},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor. "},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out. "},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"My inner parts have boiled without any rest, the days of affliction have prevented me. "},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd. "},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches. "},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat. "},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep. "}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 30 (DRB)","markdown":"[Job 30](https://primebible.com/drb/job/30)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* DRB. https://primebible.com/drb/job/30 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}