Job’s Present State Is Humiliating
“But now those who are younger than I amock me,Whose fathers I refused to put with the dogs of my flock.Job 12:42 “Indeed, what good was the strength of their hands to me?Vigor had perished from them.3 “From poverty and famine they are gaunt,They who gnaw at the dry ground by night in waste and desolation,4 Who pluck saltweed by the bushes,And whose food is the root of the broom shrub.5 “They are driven from the community;They shout against them as against a thief,6 So that they live on the slopes of ravines,In holes in the ground and among the rocks.7 “Among the bushes they 1cry out;Under the weeds they are gathered together.Or bray8 “Worthless 1fellows, even 2those without a name,They were cast out from the land.Lit sonsLit sons
9 “And now I have become their 1ataunt,And I have become a 2bbyword to them.Lit songI.e., prob. a word of insultJob 12:4Job 17:6; Ps 69:11; Lam 3:14, 6310 “They loathe me and stand aloof from me,And they do not 1refrain from aspitting in my face.Lit withhold spit from my faceNum 12:14; Deut 25:9; Job 17:6; Is 50:6; Matt 26:6711 “Because He has undone 1my 2bowstring and aafflicted me,They have cast off bthe bridle before me.Some mss HisOr cordRuth 1:21; Ps 88:7Ps 32:912 “On the right hand their 1mob arises;They apush aside my feet band pile up their ways of destruction against me.Or youth arisePs 140:4, 5Job 19:1213 “They abreak up my path,They promote my destruction;No one restrains them.Is 3:1214 “As through a wide gap they come,1Amid the storm they roll on.Lit Under15 “aSudden terrors are turned upon me;They chase away my dignity like the wind,And my 1prosperity has passed away blike a cloud.Or welfareJob 3:25; 31:23; Ps 55:3-5Job 7:9; Hos 13:3
16 “And now amy soul is poured out 1within me;Days of misery have seized me.Lit upon1 Sam 1:15; Job 3:24; Ps 22:14; 42:4; Is 53:1217 “At night it pierces amy bones 1within me,And my gnawing pains do not rest.Lit from uponJob 30:3018 “By a great force my garment is adistorted;It ties me up like the collar of my coat.Job 2:719 “He has thrown me into the amire,And I have become like dust and ashes.Ps 69:2, 1420 “I acry out to You for help, but You do not answer me;I stand up, and You turn Your attention against me.Job 19:721 “You have 1become cruel to me;With the strength of Your hand You apersecute me.Lit turned to beJob 10:3; 16:9, 14; 19:6, 2222 “You alift me up to the wind and make me ride it;And You dissolve me in a storm.Job 9:17; 27:2123 “For I know that You awill bring me to death,And to the bhouse of meeting for all living.Job 9:22; 10:8Job 3:19; Eccl 12:5
24 “Yet does one in a heap of ruins not reach out with his hand,Or in his disaster does he not acry out for help?Job 19:725 “Have I not awept for the 1one whose life is hard?Was my soul not grieved for bthe needy?Lit hard of dayPs 35:13, 14; Rom 12:15Job 24:426 “When I aexpected good, evil came;When I waited for light, bdarkness came.Job 3:25, 26; Jer 8:15Job 19:827 “1I am seething awithin and cannot rest;Days of misery confront me.Lit My inward parts are boilingLam 2:1128 “I go about 1amourning without comfort;I stand up in the assembly and bcry out for help.Or blackened, but not by the heat of the sunJob 30:31; Ps 38:6; 42:9; 43:2Job 19:729 “I have become a brother to ajackals,And a companion of ostriches.Ps 44:19; Mic 1:830 “My askin turns black 1on me,And my bbones burn with 2fever.Lit from uponLit heatJob 2:7Ps 102:331 “Therefore my aharp 1is turned to mourning,And my flute to the sound of those who weep.Lit becomesIs 24:8