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Job's Honor Turned into Contempt
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
Job’s Present State Is Humiliating
“But now those younger than I mock me,
Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.
“But now those younger than I mock me,
Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.
Yea, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished?
“Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me?
Vigor had perished from them.
Vigor had perished from them.
Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:
“From want and famine they are gaunt
Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,
Who gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,
They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.
Who pluck mallow by the bushes,
And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.
And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.
They are driven forth from among [men] -- they cry after them as after a thief --
“They are driven from the community;
They shout against them as against a thief,
They shout against them as against a thief,
To dwell in gloomy gorges, in caves of the earth and the rocks:
So that they dwell in dreadful valleys,
In holes of the earth and of the rocks.
In holes of the earth and of the rocks.
They bray among the bushes; under the brambles they are gathered together:
“Among the bushes they cry out;
Under the nettles they are gathered together.
Under the nettles they are gathered together.
Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.
“Fools, even those without a name,
They were scourged from the land.
They were scourged from the land.
And now I am their song, yea, I am their byword.
“And now I have become their taunt,
I have even become a byword to them.
I have even become a byword to them.
They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, yea, they spare not to spit in my face.
“They abhor me and stand aloof from me,
And they do not refrain from spitting at my face.
And they do not refrain from spitting at my face.
For he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me; so they cast off the bridle before me.
“Because He has loosed His bowstring and afflicted me,
They have cast off the bridle before me.
They have cast off the bridle before me.
At [my] right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;
“On the right hand their brood arises;
They thrust aside my feet and build up against me their ways of destruction.
They thrust aside my feet and build up against me their ways of destruction.
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, without any to help them;
“They break up my path,
They profit from my destruction;
No one restrains them.
They profit from my destruction;
No one restrains them.
They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.
“As through a wide breach they come,
Amid the tempest they roll on.
Amid the tempest they roll on.
Job's Prosperity Becomes Calamity
Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.
Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.
“Terrors are turned against me;
They pursue my honor as the wind,
And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
They pursue my honor as the wind,
And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
And now my soul is poured out in me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
“And now my soul is poured out within me;
Days of affliction have seized me.
Days of affliction have seized me.
The night pierceth through my bones [and detacheth them] from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:
“At night it pierces my bones within me,
And my gnawing pains take no rest.
And my gnawing pains take no rest.
By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.
“By a great force my garment is distorted;
It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
“He has cast me into the mire,
And I have become like dust and ashes.
And I have become like dust and ashes.
I cry unto thee, and thou answerest me not; I stand up, and thou lookest at me.
“I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer me;
I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.
I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.
Thou art changed to a cruel one to me; with the strength of thy hand thou pursuest me.
“You have become cruel to me;
With the might of Your hand You persecute me.
With the might of Your hand You persecute me.
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance.
“You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride;
And You dissolve me in a storm.
And You dissolve me in a storm.
For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.
“For I know that You will bring me to death
And to the house of meeting for all living.
And to the house of meeting for all living.
Indeed, no prayer [availeth] when he stretcheth out [his] hand: though they cry when he destroyeth.
“Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand,
Or in his disaster therefore cry out for help?
Or in his disaster therefore cry out for help?
Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy?
“Have I not wept for the one whose life is hard?
Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.
“When I expected good, then evil came;
When I waited for light, then darkness came.
When I waited for light, then darkness came.
My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me.
“I am seething within and cannot relax;
Days of affliction confront me.
Days of affliction confront me.
I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation.
“I go about mourning without comfort;
I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.
I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.
I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches.
“I have become a brother to jackals
And a companion of ostriches.
And a companion of ostriches.
My skin is become black [and falleth] off me, and my bones are parched with heat.
“My skin turns black on me,
And my bones burn with fever.
And my bones burn with fever.