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1"But now they mock me; men who are far younger than I, whose fathers I would have hated to entrust with my own sheep dogs. | 1“But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. |
2Furthermore, what could I have gained from men whose strength is gone? | 2What could I gain from the strength of their hands, men whose vigor is gone? |
3Unproductive due to poverty and hunger, they could only scratch in parched soil, devastated and desolated. | 3Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation; |
4"They would pluck off herbs from salt marshes to eat; and roots of the broom shrub for food. | 4they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes, and the roots of the broom tree for their food. |
5Driven away from human company, they were shouted at as though they were thieves. | 5They are driven out from human company; they shout after them as after a thief. |
6They lived in the most dangerous of ravines, in holes in the ground, and among rocks. | 6In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks. |
7They bray like donkeys among the bushes and huddle together under the desert weeds. | 7Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together. |
8Sons of fools and of uncertain reputation, they have been driven from the land by scourging." | 8A senseless, a nameless brood, they have been whipped out of the land. |
9"Now, I've become the object of their mocking melodies; I'm nothing but a fool's proverb to them! | 9“And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them. |
10They abhor me—they keep their distance from me; but they don't refrain from spitting at the sight of me. | 10They abhor me; they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me. |
11But God has loosened his cord and afflicted me; so they've cast off all restraints in my presence. | 11Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence. |
12"A wretched crowd ambushes me to my right; they trip my feet; they build up their path of calamity for me. | 12On my right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they cast up against me their ways of destruction. |
13They tear up my pathways; they profit from my destruction, and they need no help to do this! | 13They break up my path; they promote my calamity; they need no one to help them. |
14They come like those who breach through a wall; as everything crashes around me they'll roll on and on! | 14As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on. |
15My greatest fears have overcome me; my honor is assaulted as though by a wind storm; my prosperity evaporates like a morning cloud." | 15Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud. |
16"Now, my soul pours itself out; the time of my affliction has taken control of me. | 16“And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me. |
17The night racks my bones; and the pain that gnaws on me will not rest. | 17The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest. |
18My clothes are disheveled by his forceful treatment of me; he restricts my movement like the collar of my cloak. | 18With great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic. |
19"He tossed me into the mire; I've become like dust and ashes. | 19God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. |
20I cry for help to you, but you won't answer me; I stand still, but you only look at me. | 20I cry to you for help and you do not answer me; I stand, and you only look at me. |
21You changed toward me, and now you're cruel to me; with your mighty hand you are persecuting me; | 21You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me. |
22you carried me off in a wind storm, making me ride on it while you toss me about as the storm roars around me. | 22You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it, and you toss me about in the roar of the storm. |
23I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living." | 23For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living. |
24"Surely he won't stretch his hand against the needy, will he, especially if they cry to him in their calamity? | 24“Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help? |
25Haven't I wept for the one who is going through hard times? Haven't I grieved for the needy? | 25Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy? |
26I have hoped for good, but evil came instead; I have hoped for light, but darkness came. | 26But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came. |
27I'm boiling mad inside, and I won't remain silent; the time for my affliction to confront me has arrived. | 27My inward parts are in turmoil and never still; days of affliction come to meet me. |
28"In growing darkness, I walked without sunlight; I stood in the congregation to cry for help. | 28I go about darkened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help. |
29I've become a brother to jackals, and a friend to ostriches. | 29I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches. |
30My skin turns black all over me; and my bones seem burned from the heat. | 30My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat. |
31But my harp is in mourning; my flute plays only songs for those who are weeping." Job Asserts His Moral Innocence | 31My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep. |
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