Job: Chapter 30:1-31 of 42 (KJV)

Pray for God’s Wisdom and Understanding,
In Jesus name we pray, Amen.

Honor for Job Turned to Derision

Job 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.

Job 30:2
Yea, whereto [might] the strength of their hands [profit] me, in whom old age was perished?

Job 30:3
For want and famine [they were] solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

Job 30:4
Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots [for] their meat.

Job 30:5
They were driven forth from among [men,] (they cried after them as [after] a thief;)

Job 30:6
To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.

Job 30:7
Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

Job 30:8
[They were] children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

Job 30:9
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

Job 30:10
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

Job 30:11
Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

Job 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.

Job 30:13
They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

Job 30:14
They came [upon me] as a wide breaking in [of waters:] in the desolation they rolled themselves [upon me. ]

Job 30:15
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

Job 30:16
And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

Job 30:17
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

Job 30:18
By the great force [of my disease] is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

Job 30:19
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

Job 30:20
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me [not. ]

Job 30:21
Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

Job 30:22
Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride [upon it,] and dissolvest my substance.

Job 30:23
For I know [that] thou wilt bring me [to] death, and [to] the house appointed for all living.

Job 30:24
Howbeit he will not stretch out [his] hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

Job 30:25
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was [not] my soul grieved for the poor

Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came [unto me:] and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Job 30:27
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

Job 30:28
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation.

Job 30:29
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

Job 30:30
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Job 30:31
My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

Thanking God for teaching us his Word, Amen.
End of Job Chapter 30/42.