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    Job 30

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    The men who once scavenged among wastelands and hid beneath nettles now mock Job in song, keep close enough to spit in his face, and build siege ramps against him.

    The mockers at his right handvv. 1–15

    Job begins with an insult of almost agricultural precision: these younger men are not worth assigning to his sheep dogs, and their fathers would not have made the cut either. Once gaunt scavengers, banished and shouted at like thieves, they lived among wadis, rocks, holes, shrubs, and nettles. Now the very rabble has arrived at his right hand, rolling through the breach of his ruin with no one to restrain them.

    Thrown into the mudvv. 16–23

    The mockery gives way to the body itself. Affliction grips Job by night, pain gnaws without rest, and God is pictured not at a distance but with a hand on his collar, throwing him into mud and driving him before the wind. Job cries for help and receives only a look; the destination, he says, is death, the place appointed for all the living.

    A harp with nothing cheerful left in itvv. 24–31

    Job's complaint turns outward once more: he had wept for the troubled and grieved for the needy, yet his hoped-for good has produced evil and his expected light has become darkness. He stands blackened in the assembly, paired in his desolation with jackals and ostriches, while his skin peels and his bones burn. The final alteration is musical and perfectly grim: the harp and flute still exist, but both have been assigned mourning.

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    1. Job 30:1“But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.

    2. Job 30:2What use to me was the strength of their hands, since their vigor had left them?

    3. Job 30:3Gaunt from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, and the desolate wasteland by night.

    4. Job 30:4They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

    5. Job 30:5They were banished from among men, shouted at like thieves,

    6. Job 30:6so that they lived on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

    7. Job 30:7They cried out among the shrubs and huddled beneath the nettles.

    8. Job 30:8A senseless and nameless brood, they were driven off the land.

    9. Job 30:9And now they mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.

    10. Job 30:10They abhor me and keep far from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

    11. Job 30:11Because God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.

    12. Job 30:12The rabble arises at my right; they lay snares for my feet and build siege ramps against me.

    13. Job 30:13They tear up my path; they profit from my destruction, with no one to restrain them.

    14. Job 30:14They advance as through a wide breach; through the ruins they keep rolling in.

    15. Job 30:15Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.

    16. Job 30:16And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.

    17. Job 30:17Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.

    18. Job 30:18With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.

    19. Job 30:19He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

    20. Job 30:20I cry out to You for help, but You do not answer; when I stand up, You merely look at me.

    21. Job 30:21You have ruthlessly turned on me; You oppose me with Your strong hand.

    22. Job 30:22You snatch me up into the wind and drive me before it; You toss me about in the storm.

    23. Job 30:23Yes, I know that You will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.

    24. Job 30:24Yet no one stretches out his hand against a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.

    25. Job 30:25Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?

    26. Job 30:26But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.

    27. Job 30:27I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.

    28. Job 30:28I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

    29. Job 30:29I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

    30. Job 30:30My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.

    31. Job 30:31My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.’’

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    • 26Jeremiah 8:15We hoped for peace, but no good has come, for a time of healing, but there was only terror.
    • 30Lamentations 4:8But now their appearance is blacker than soot; they are not recognized in the streets. Their skin has shriveled on their bones; it has become as dry as a stick.
    • 9Lamentations 3:63When they sit and when they rise, see how they mock me in song.
    • 9Job 17:6He has made me a byword among the people, a man in whose face they spit.
    • 25Romans 12:15Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
    • 29Micah 1:8Because of this I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like a jackal and mourn like an ostrich.
    • 31Lamentations 5:15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.
    • 9Lamentations 3:14I am a laughingstock to all my people; they mock me in song all day long.
    • 10Matthew 26:67Then they spit in His face and struck Him. Others slapped Him
    • 10Isaiah 50:6I offered My back to those who struck Me, and My cheeks to those who tore out My beard. I did not hide My face from scorn and spittle.
    • 25Psalms 35:13–14Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
    • 28Psalms 38:6I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
    • 28Psalms 42:9I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
    • 28Psalms 43:2For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?
    • 30Psalms 102:3For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
    • 1Job 12:4I am a laughingstock to my friends, though I called on God, and He answered. The righteous and upright man is a laughingstock.

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