Job 30:1-14
Job’s Honor Turned to Contempt

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.

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

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

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

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

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6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, [in] caves of the earth, and [in] the rocks.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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