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1“But now they mock at me, men younger than I, Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.

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.

2Indeed, what profit is the strength of their hands to me? Their vigor has perished.

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

3They are gaunt from want and famine, Fleeing late to the wilderness, desolate and waste,

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

4Who pluck mallow by the bushes, And broom tree roots for their food.

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

5They were driven out from among men, They shouted at them as at a thief.

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

6They had to live in the clefts of the valleys, In caves of the earth and the rocks.

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

7Among the bushes they brayed, Under the nettles they nestled.

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

8They were sons of fools, Yes, sons of vile men; They were scourged from the land.

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

9“And now I am their taunting song; Yes, I am their byword.

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

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

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

11Because He has loosed my bowstring and afflicted me, They have cast off restraint before me.

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

12At my right hand the rabble arises; They push away my feet, And they raise against me their ways of destruction.

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

13They break up my path, They promote my calamity; They have no helper.

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

14They come as broad breakers; Under the ruinous storm they roll along.

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

15Terrors are turned upon me; They pursue my honor as the wind, And my prosperity has passed like a cloud.

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

16“And now my soul is poured out because of my plight; The days of affliction take hold of me.

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

17My bones are pierced in me at night, And my gnawing pains take no rest.

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

18By great force my garment is disfigured; It binds me about as the collar of my coat.

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

19He has cast me into the mire, And I have become like dust and ashes.

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

20“I cry out to You, but You do not answer me; I stand up, and You regard me.

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

21But You have become cruel to me; With the strength of Your hand You oppose me.

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

22You lift me up to the wind and cause me to ride on it; You spoil my success.

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

23For I know that You will bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

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."

24“Surely He would not stretch out His hand against a heap of ruins, If they cry out when He destroys it.

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

25Have I not wept for him who was in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor?

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

26But when I looked for good, evil came to me; And when I waited for light, then came darkness.

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

27My heart is in turmoil and cannot rest; Days of affliction confront me.

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

28I go about mourning, but not in the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.

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

29I am a brother of jackals, And a companion of ostriches.

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

30My skin grows black and falls from me; My bones burn with fever.

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

31My harp is turned to mourning, And my flute to the voice of those who weep.

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

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