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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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"But no longer. Now I'm the butt of their jokes--young ruffians! whippersnappers!
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"But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
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"But now they mock at me, men younger than I, Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.
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"But now I am mocked by those who are younger than I, by young men whose fathers are not worthy to run with my sheepdogs.
Job.30.2
Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
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Why, I considered their fathers mere inexperienced pups. But they are worse than dogs--good for nothing, stray, mangy animals,
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Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?
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Indeed, what profit is the strength of their hands to me? Their vigor has perished.
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A lot of good they are to me--those worn-out wretches!
Job.30.3
For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
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Half-starved, scavenging the back alleys, howling at the moon;
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Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.
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They are gaunt from want and famine, Fleeing late to the wilderness, desolate and waste,
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They are gaunt with hunger and flee to the deserts and the wastelands, desolate and gloomy.
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Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
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Homeless guttersnipes chewing on old bones and licking old tin cans;
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In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom tree.
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Who pluck mallow by the bushes, And broom tree roots for their food.
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They eat coarse leaves, and they burn the roots of shrubs for heat.
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They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
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Outcasts from the community, cursed as dangerous delinquents.
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They were banished from their fellow men, shouted at as if they were thieves.
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They were driven out from among men, They shouted at them as at a thief.
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They are driven from civilization, and people shout after them as if they were thieves.
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To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
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Nobody would put up with them; they were driven from the neighborhood.
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They were forced to live in the dry stream beds, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
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They had to live in the clefts of the valleys, In caves of the earth and the rocks.
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So now they live in frightening ravines and in caves and among the rocks.
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Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
Job.30.7
You could hear them out there at the edge of town, yelping and barking, huddled in junkyards,
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They brayed among the bushes and huddled in the undergrowth.
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Among the bushes they brayed, Under the nettles they nestled.
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They sound like animals as they howl among the bushes; they huddle together for shelter beneath the nettles.
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They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
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A gang of beggars and no-names, thrown out on their ears.
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A base and nameless brood, they were driven out of the land.
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They were sons of fools, Yes, sons of vile men; They were scourged from the land.
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They are nameless fools, outcasts of civilization.
Job.30.9
And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
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"But now I'm the one they're after, mistreating me, taunting and mocking.
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"And now their sons mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
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"And now I am their taunting song; Yes, I am their byword.
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"And now their sons mock me with their vulgar song! They taunt me!
Job.30.10
They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
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They abhor me, they abuse me. How dare those scoundrels--they spit in my face!
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They detest me and keep their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
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They abhor me, they keep far from me; They do not hesitate to spit in my face.
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They despise me and won't come near me, except 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.
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Now that God has undone me and left me in a heap, they hold nothing back. Anything goes.
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Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they throw off restraint in my presence.
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Because He has loosed my bowstring and afflicted me, They have cast off restraint before me.
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For God has cut the cords of my tent. He has humbled me, so they have thrown off all restraint.
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.
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They come at me from my blind side, trip me up, then jump on me while I'm down.
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On my right the tribe attacks; they lay snares for my feet, they build their siege ramps against me.
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At my right hand the rabble arises; They push away my feet, And they raise against me their ways of destruction.
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These outcasts oppose me to my face. They send me sprawling; they lay traps in my path.
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They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
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They throw every kind of obstacle in my path, determined to ruin me--and no one lifts a finger to help me!
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They break up my road; they succeed in destroying me- without anyone's helping them.
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They break up my path, They promote my calamity; They have no helper.
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They block my road and do everything they can to hasten my calamity, knowing full well that I have no one to help me.
Job.30.14
They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
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They violate my broken body, trample through the rubble of my ruined life.
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They advance as through a gaping breach; amid the ruins they come rolling in.
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They come as broad breakers; Under the ruinous storm they roll along.
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They come at me from all directions. They rush upon me when I am down.
Job.30.15
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
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Terrors assault me--my dignity in shreds, salvation up in smoke.
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Terrors overwhelm me; my dignity is driven away as by the wind, my safety vanishes like a cloud.
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Terrors are turned upon me; They pursue my honor as the wind, And my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
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I live in terror now. They hold me in contempt, and my prosperity has vanished as a cloud before a strong wind.
Job.30.16
And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
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"And now my life drains out, as suffering seizes and grips me hard.
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"And now my life ebbs away; days of suffering grip me.
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"And now my soul is poured out because of my plight; The days of affliction take hold of me.
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"And now my heart is broken. Depression haunts my days.
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My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
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Night gnaws at my bones; the pain never lets up.
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Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never rest.
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My bones are pierced in me at night, And my gnawing pains take no rest.
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My weary nights are filled with pain as though something were relentlessly gnawing at my bones.
Job.30.18
By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
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I am tied hand and foot, my neck in a noose. I twist and turn.
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In his great power God becomes like clothing to me; he binds me like the neck of my garment.
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By great force my garment is disfigured; It binds me about as the collar of my coat.
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With a strong hand, God grabs my garment. He grips me by the collar of my tunic.
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He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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Thrown facedown in the muck, I'm a muddy mess, inside and out.
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He throws me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.
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He has cast me into the mire, And I have become like dust and ashes.
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He has thrown me into the mud. I have become as 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.30.20
"I shout for help, God, and get nothing, no answer! I stand to face you in protest, and you give me a blank stare!
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"I cry out to you, O God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me.
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"I cry out to You, but You do not answer me; I stand up, and You regard me.
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"I cry to you, O God, but you don't answer me. I stand before you, and you don't bother to look.
Job.30.21
Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
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You've turned into my tormenter--you slap me around, knock me about.
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You turn on me ruthlessly; with the might of your hand you attack me.
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But You have become cruel to me; With the strength of Your hand You oppose me.
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You have become cruel toward me. You persecute me with your great power.
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Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
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You raised me up so I was riding high and then dropped me, and I crashed.
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You snatch me up and drive me before the wind; you toss me about in the storm.
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You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride on it; You spoil my success.
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You throw me into the whirlwind and destroy me in the storm.
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For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
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I know you're determined to kill me, to put me six feet under.
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I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
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For I know that You will bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.
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And I know that you are sending me to my death--the destination of all who live.
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Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
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"What did I do to deserve this? Did I ever hit anyone who was calling for help?
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"Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.
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"Surely He would not stretch out His hand against a heap of ruins, If they cry out when He destroys it.
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"Surely no one would turn against the needy when they cry for help.
Job.30.25
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
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Haven't I wept for those who live a hard life, been heartsick over the lot of the poor?
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Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor?
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Have I not wept for him who was in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor?
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Did I not weep for those in trouble? Was I not deeply grieved for the needy?
Job.30.26
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
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But where did it get me? I expected good but evil showed up. I looked for light but darkness fell.
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Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.
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But when I looked for good, evil came to me; And when I waited for light, then came darkness.
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So I looked for good, but evil came instead. I waited for the light, but darkness fell.
Job.30.27
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
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My stomach's in a constant churning, never settles down. Each day confronts me with more suffering.
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The churning inside me never stops; days of suffering confront me.
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My heart is in turmoil and cannot rest; Days of affliction confront me.
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My heart is troubled and restless. Days of affliction have come upon me.
Job.30.28
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
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I walk under a black cloud. The sun is gone. I stand in the congregation and protest.
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I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
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I go about mourning, but not in the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.
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I walk in gloom, without sunlight. I stand in the public square and cry for help.
Job.30.29
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
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I howl with the jackals, I hoot with the owls.
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I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of owls.
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I am a brother of jackals, And a companion of ostriches.
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But instead, I am considered a brother to jackals and a companion to ostriches.
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My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
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I'm black and blue all over, burning up with fever.
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My skin grows black and peels; my body burns with fever.
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My skin grows black and falls from me; My bones burn with fever.
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My skin has turned dark, and my bones burn with fever.
Job.30.31
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
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My fiddle plays nothing but the blues; my mouth harp wails laments.
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My harp is tuned to mourning, and my flute to the sound of wailing.
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My harp is turned to mourning, And my flute to the voice of those who weep.
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My harp plays sad music, and my flute accompanies those who weep.
