{"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/ylt/job/30","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-05-27T04:25:06.108Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"Job","bookSlug":"job","chapter":30,"testament":"OLD"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":29,"nextChapter":31,"totalChapters":42,"totalVerses":31},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock."},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"Also — the power of their hands, why is it to me? On them hath old age perished."},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots is their food."},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts."},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together."},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"Sons of folly — even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land."},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword."},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit."},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away."},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity."},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, 'He hath no helper.'"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away."},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down."},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me."},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes."},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me."},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppressest me."},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest — Thou levellest me."},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And to the house appointed for all living."},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety."},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy."},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh."},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction."},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry."},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich."},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping."}],"citation":{"inline":"Job 30 (YLT)","markdown":"[Job 30](https://primebible.com/ylt/job/30)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/job/30 (accessed 2026-05-27)."}}