Chapter 30
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30:1
- But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
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30:2
- Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
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30:3
- For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
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30:4
- Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
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30:5
- They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
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30:6
- To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
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30:7
- Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
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30:8
- They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
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30:9
- And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
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30:10
- They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
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30:11
- Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
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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.
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30:13
- They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
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30:14
- They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
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30:15
- Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
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30:16
- And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
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30:17
- My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
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30:18
- By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
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30:19
- He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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30:20
- I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
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30:21
- Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
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30:22
- Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
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30:23
- For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
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30:24
- Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
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30:25
- Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
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30:26
- When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
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30:27
- My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
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30:28
- I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
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30:29
- I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
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30:30
- My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
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30:31
- My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
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