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Passage Lookup: Job 30

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Job 30:1
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"But now they mock me,(a) men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.(b)
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Job 30:2
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Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?
Job 30:3
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Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed[a] the parched land(c) in desolate wastelands(d) at night.(e)
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Job 30:4
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In the brush they gathered salt herbs,(f) and their food[b] was the root of the broom bush.(g)
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Job 30:5
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They were banished from human society, shouted at as if they were thieves.
Job 30:6
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They were forced to live in the dry stream beds, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.(h)
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Job 30:7
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They brayed(i) among the bushes(j) and huddled in the undergrowth.
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Job 30:8
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A base and nameless brood,(k) they were driven out of the land.(l)
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Job 30:9
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"And now those young men mock me(m) in song;(n) I have become a byword(o) among them.
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Job 30:10
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They detest me(p) and keep their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.(q)
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Job 30:11
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Now that God has unstrung my bow(r) and afflicted me,(s) they throw off restraint(t) in my presence.
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Job 30:12
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On my right(u) the tribe[c] attacks; they lay snares(v) for my feet,(w) they build their siege ramps against me.(x)
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Job 30:13
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They break up my road;(y) they succeed in destroying me.(z) ‘No one can help him,' they say.
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Job 30:14
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They advance as through a gaping breach;(aa) amid the ruins they come rolling in.
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Job 30:15
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Terrors(ab) overwhelm me;(ac) my dignity is driven away as by the wind, my safety vanishes like a cloud.(ad)
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Job 30:16
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"And now my life ebbs away;(ae) days of suffering grip me.(af)
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Job 30:17
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Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never rest.(ag)
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Job 30:18
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In his great power(ah) God becomes like clothing to me[d]; he binds me like the neck of my garment.
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Job 30:19
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He throws me into the mud,(ai) and I am reduced to dust and ashes.(aj)
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Job 30:20
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"I cry out to you,(ak) God, but you do not answer;(al) I stand up, but you merely look at me.
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Job 30:21
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You turn on me ruthlessly;(am) with the might of your hand(an) you attack me.(ao)
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Job 30:22
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You snatch me up and drive me before the wind;(ap) you toss me about in the storm.(aq)
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Job 30:23
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I know you will bring me down to death,(ar) to the place appointed for all the living.(as)
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Job 30:24
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"Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man(at) when he cries for help in his distress.(au)
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Job 30:25
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Have I not wept for those in trouble?(av) Has not my soul grieved for the poor?(aw)
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Job 30:26
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Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.(ax)
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Job 30:27
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The churning inside me never stops;(ay) days of suffering confront me.(az)
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Job 30:28
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I go about blackened,(ba) but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.(bb)
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Job 30:29
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I have become a brother of jackals,(bc) a companion of owls.(bd)
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Job 30:30
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My skin grows black(be) and peels;(bf) my body burns with fever.(bg)
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Job 30:31
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My lyre is tuned to mourning,(bh) and my pipe(bi) to the sound of wailing.
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