Job 30:1-15

21st Century King James Version

30 “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.

² Yea, for what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

³ From want and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wilderness, in former time desolate and waste,

⁴ who cut up mallow by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

⁵ They were driven forth from among men; they cried after them as after a thief,

⁶ to dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth and in the rocks.

⁷ Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

⁸ They were children of fools, yea, children of base men; they were viler than the earth.

⁹ “And now am I their song; yea, I am their byword.

¹⁰ They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

¹¹ Because He hath loosed my cord and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

¹² Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destructiveness.

¹³ They mar my path, they set forward my calamity; they have no helper.

¹⁴ They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters; in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

¹⁵ Terrors are turned upon me; they pursue my soul as the wind, and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.