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30:1  “But now they that are younger than I hold me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
30:2  Yea, for what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
30:3  From want and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wilderness, in former time desolate and waste,
30:4  who cut up mallow by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
30:5  They were driven forth from among men; they cried after them as after a thief,
30:6  to dwell in the cliffs 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 children of fools, yea, children of base men; they were viler than the earth.
30:9  “And now am I their song; yea, I am their byword.
30:10  They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
30:11  Because He hath loosed my cord and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
30:12  Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destructiveness.
30:13  They mar my path, they set forward my calamity; they have no helper.
30:14  They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters; in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
30:15  Terrors are turned upon me; they pursue my soul as the wind, and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
30:16  “And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
30:17  My bones are pierced in me in the night season, and my sinews take no rest.
30:18  By the great force of my disease is my garment changed; it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
30:19  He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
30:20  I cry unto Thee, and Thou dost not hear me; I stand up, and Thou regardest me not.
30:21  Thou art become cruel to me; with Thy strong hand Thou opposest Thyself against me.
30:22  Thou liftest me up to the wind; Thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
30:23  For I know that Thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
30:24  “Yet He will not stretch out His hand to the grave, though they cry in His destruction.
30:25  Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
30:26  When I looked for good, then evil came unto me; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
30:27  My bowels boiled, and rested not; the days of affliction came upon me.
30:28  I went mourning without the sun; I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
30:29  I am 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 also is turned to mourning, and my flute into the voice of them that weep.