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1"But now they mock me; men who are far younger than I, whose fathers I would have hated to entrust with my own sheep dogs.

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

2Furthermore, what could I have gained from men whose strength is gone?

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

3Unproductive due to poverty and hunger, they could only scratch in parched soil, devastated and desolated.

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

4"They would pluck off herbs from salt marshes to eat; and roots of the broom shrub for food.

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

5Driven away from human company, they were shouted at as though they were thieves.

5They were banished from among men, shouted down like thieves,

6They lived in the most dangerous of ravines, in holes in the ground, and among rocks.

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

7They bray like donkeys among the bushes and huddle together under the desert weeds.

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

8Sons of fools and of uncertain reputation, they have been driven from the land by scourging."

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

9"Now, I've become the object of their mocking melodies; I'm nothing but a fool's proverb to them!

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

10They abhor me—they keep their distance from me; but they don't refrain from spitting at the sight of me.

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

11But God has loosened his cord and afflicted me; so they've cast off all restraints in my presence.

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

12"A wretched crowd ambushes me to my right; they trip my feet; they build up their path of calamity for me.

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

13They tear up my pathways; they profit from my destruction, and they need no help to do this!

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

14They come like those who breach through a wall; as everything crashes around me they'll roll on and on!

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

15My greatest fears have overcome me; my honor is assaulted as though by a wind storm; my prosperity evaporates like a morning cloud."

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

16"Now, my soul pours itself out; the time of my affliction has taken control of me.

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

17The night racks my bones; and the pain that gnaws on me will not rest.

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

18My clothes are disheveled by his forceful treatment of me; he restricts my movement like the collar of my cloak.

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

19"He tossed me into the mire; I've become like dust and ashes.

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

20I cry for help to you, but you won't answer me; I stand still, but you only look at me.

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

21You changed toward me, and now you're cruel to me; with your mighty hand you are persecuting me;

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

22you carried me off in a wind storm, making me ride on it while you toss me about as the storm roars around me.

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

23I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living."

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

24"Surely he won't stretch his hand against the needy, will he, especially if they cry to him in their calamity?

24Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.

25Haven't I wept for the one who is going through hard times? Haven't I grieved for the needy?

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

26I have hoped for good, but evil came instead; I have hoped for light, but darkness came.

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

27I'm boiling mad inside, and I won't remain silent; the time for my affliction to confront me has arrived.

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

28"In growing darkness, I walked without sunlight; I stood in the congregation to cry for help.

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

29I've become a brother to jackals, and a friend to ostriches.

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

30My skin turns black all over me; and my bones seem burned from the heat.

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

31But my harp is in mourning; my flute plays only songs for those who are weeping." Job Asserts His Moral Innocence

31My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.

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