{"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/web/job/30","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-09T23:21:42.110Z"},"reference":{"translation":"WEB","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":30,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":29,"nextChapter":31,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":31},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"|But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation."},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"They are driven out from the midst of men. They cry after them as after a thief;"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"So that they dwell in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Among the bushes they bray; and under the nettles they are gathered together."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"|Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, and don't hesitate to spit in my face."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"For he has untied his cord, and afflicted me; and they have thrown off restraint before me."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, without anyone's help."},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"As through a wide breach they come, in the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Terrors have turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"|Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on 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 great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"|However doesn't one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Didn't I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn't my soul grieved for the needy?"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on 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 grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat."},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 30 (WEB)","markdown":"[Job 30](https://primebible.com/web/job/30)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* WEB. https://primebible.com/web/job/30 (accessed 2026-06-09)."}}