{"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/erv/job/30","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:22:20.209Z"},"reference":{"translation":"ERV","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 disdained to set with the dogs of my flock."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? men in whom ripe age is perished."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"They are gaunt with want and famine; they gnaw the dry ground; in the gloom of wasteness and desolation."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; and the roots of the broom are their meat."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"They are driven forth from the midst of men; they cry after them as after a thief."},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"In the clefts of the valleys must they dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they are gathered together."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"They are children of fools, yea, children of base men; they were scourged out of the land."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And now I am become their song, yea, I am a byword unto them."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and spare not to spit in my face."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me, and they have cast off the bridle before me."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Upon my right hand rise the rabble; they thrust aside my feet, and they cast up against me their ways of destruction."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, even men that have no helper."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"As through a wide breach they come: in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Terrors are turned upon me, they chase mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away as a cloud."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"By the great force of my disease is my garment disfigured: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"I cry unto thee, and thou dost not answer me: I stand up, and thou lookest at me."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Thou art turned to be cruel to me: with the might of thy hand thou persecutest me."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride upon it; and thou dissolvest me in the storm."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Surely against a ruinous heap he will not put forth his hand; though it be in his destruction, one may utter a cry because of these things."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the needy?"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"When I looked for good, then evil came; and when I waited for light, there came darkness."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"My bowels boil, and rest not; days of affliction are come upon me."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"I am a brother to jackals, and a companion to ostriches."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"My skin is black, and falleth from me, and my bones are burned with heat."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of them that weep."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 30 (ERV)","markdown":"[Job 30](https://primebible.com/erv/job/30)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* ERV. https://primebible.com/erv/job/30 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}