# Job 30

> Lumin Translation

Source: https://www.lumin.faith/read/job/30

Translated from Hebrew and Greek with AI, then checked for clarity and fidelity.

1. But now those younger than I mock me, whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
2. Even what is the strength of their hands to me, since vigor has perished from them?
3. Solitary from want and famine, they gnaw the dry wasteland—the desolation and ruin of yesterday.
4. They pluck mallows by the shrubs, and juniper roots are their food.
5. They are driven out from the midst and shouted at like a thief.
6. They dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in holes in the ground and rocks.
7. They bray among the bushes and gather together under the nettles.
8. Children of fools, even children without a name, driven out from the land.
9. Now I have become their song, and I am their byword.
10. They abhor me, they keep far from me, and do not withhold spit from my face.
11. Because he has loosed his cord, my cord, and afflicted me, they have cast off the bridle from before me.
12. On my right the youths rise up, thrusting aside my feet and raising against me their paths of destruction.
13. They break up my path to my ruin and advance my disaster, with no helper for them.
14. Like a wide breach they come to me; they roll themselves in the destruction.
15. Terrors have turned against me; they pursue my soul like the wind, and my deliverance passes away like a cloud.
16. Now my soul pours out within me; days of affliction seize me.
17. At night my bones are pierced through me, and my sinews do not rest.
18. Great power distorts my garment; like my tunic's collar it girds me.
19. He has hurled me into the clay, and I have become like dust and ashes.
20. I cry out to you, but you do not respond to me. I stand up, and you look upon me.
21. You have become cruel toward me; with your hand's might you oppose me.
22. You lift me to the wind, make me ride upon it, and dissolve my substance.
23. For I know that you will bring me back to death, to the house of meeting for all living.
24. Yet does one not extend a hand in disaster, or therefore cry out in his ruin?
25. Did I not weep for the grievous day? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
26. For when I hoped for good, evil came; and when I waited for light, darkness came.
27. My heart boiled and did not quiet; days of affliction met me.
28. I walked darkly without the sun; I arose in the assembly and cried out.
29. I am a brother to jackals and a fellow to ostriches.
30. My skin blackens as it peels from me, and my bones burn with heat.
31. My harp has turned to mourning, and my organ to the sound of weeping.

## Nearby chapters

[Job 29](https://www.lumin.faith/read/job/29.md)
[Job 31](https://www.lumin.faith/read/job/31.md)

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