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30:1  But now those that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
30:2  For, unto what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom time was lost?
30:3  For want and famine they walked alone; fleeing into solitude, to the dark place, desolate and waste.
30:4  Who cut up mallows among the bushes and juniper roots for their food.
30:5  They were driven forth from among men (they cried after them as after a thief).
30:6  They dwelt in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
30:7  Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
30:8  They were sons of fools and men without names; they were lower than the earth.
30:9  And now I am their song, and I am their byword.
30:10  They abhor me, they distance themselves from me, and do not spare to spit in my face.
30:11  Because God has loosed my cord and afflicted me, they have also gone out of control before my face.
30:12  Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
30:13  They cast down my path, they took advantage of my calamity, against them there was no helper.
30:14  They came in as through a wide breach; they were stirred up because of my calamity.
30:15  They have loosed terrors upon me; they fought my will as the wind and my saving health as a cloud that passes.
30:16  And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
30:17  My bones pierce me in the night, and my sinews take no rest.
30:18  By the great force of my disease my garment is changed; it binds me about as the collar of my coat.
30:19  He has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
30:20  I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me; I present myself, and thou regardest me not.
30:21  Thou art become cruel to me; with the strength of thy hand thou dost hate me.
30:22  Thou didst lift me up and cause me to ride upon the wind, and didst dissolve my being.
30:23  For I know that thou dost conduct me unto death and to the house appointed for all living.
30:24  But he will not stretch out his hand against the grave; do those who are buried cry out when he destroys them?
30:25  Did I not weep for the one that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
30:26  When I expected good, then evil came unto me; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
30:27  My bowels boil and do not rest; the days of affliction came upon me.
30:28  I went about darkened, but not by the sun; I stood up and cried out in the congregation.
30:29  I have become a brother to dragons and a companion to owls.
30:30  My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
30:31  My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.