{"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/kjv/job/30","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-30T18:29:41.616Z"},"reference":{"translation":"KJV","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":30,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":29,"nextChapter":31,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":31},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"But now <i>they that are</i> younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Yea, whereto <i>might</i> the strength of their hands <i>profit</i> me, in whom old age was perished?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"For want and famine <i>they were</i> solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots <i>for</i> their meat."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"They were driven forth from among <i>men</i>, (they cried after them as <i>after</i> a thief;)"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, <i>in</i> caves of the earth, and <i>in</i> the rocks."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"<i>They were</i> children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"Upon <i>my</i> right <i>hand</i> rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"They came <i>upon me</i> as a wide breaking in <i>of waters</i>: in the desolation they rolled themselves <i>upon me</i>."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"By the great force <i>of my disease</i> is my garment changed: 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 hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me <i>not</i>."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride <i>upon it</i>, and dissolvest my substance."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For I know <i>that</i> thou wilt bring me <i>to</i> death, and <i>to</i> the house appointed for all living."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Howbeit he will not stretch out <i>his</i> hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was <i>not</i> my soul grieved for the poor?"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"When I looked for good, then evil came <i>unto me</i>: and when I waited for light, there came darkness."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, <i>and</i> I cried in the congregation."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"My harp also is <i>turned</i> to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 30 (KJV)","markdown":"[Job 30](https://primebible.com/kjv/job/30)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* KJV. https://primebible.com/kjv/job/30 (accessed 2026-05-30)."}}