Job 第30章
whose fathers I would have disdained
to set with the dogs of my flock.
2What could I gain from the strength of their hands,
3Through want and hard hunger
they 30:3 [ver. 17] gnaw 30:3 Jer. 2:6the dry ground by night in 30:3 ch. 38:27; Zeph. 1:15waste and desolation;
4they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes,
and the roots of the broom tree for their food.30:4 Or warmth
530:5 [1 Sam. 26:19]They are driven out from human company;
they shout after them as after a thief.
6In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell,
in holes of the earth and of 30:6 1 Sam. 13:6; Jer. 4:29the rocks.
under 30:7 Prov. 24:31; Zeph. 2:9the nettles they huddle together.
8A senseless, a nameless brood,
they have been whipped out of the land.
I am 30:9 See ch. 17:6a byword to them.
they do not hesitate to 30:10 Num. 12:14; Isa. 50:6; Matt. 26:67; 27:30spit at the sight of me.
11Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me,
they have cast off restraint30:11 Hebrew the bridle in my presence.
they push away my feet;
they 30:12 ch. 19:12cast up against me their ways of destruction.
13They break up my path;
they promote my 30:13 ch. 6:2calamity;
they need no one to help them.
amid the crash they roll on.
my honor is pursued as by the wind,
and my prosperity has passed away like 30:15 ch. 7:9; Isa. 44:22a cloud.
16“And now my soul is 30:16 1 Sam. 1:15; [ch. 10:1]poured out within me;
days of affliction have taken hold of me.
and the pain that 30:17 ver. 3gnaws me takes no rest.
18With great force my garment is 30:18 [1 Sam. 28:8; 1 Kgs. 20:38]disfigured;
it binds me about like the collar of my tunic.
19God30:19 Hebrew He has cast me into the mire,
and I have become like 30:19 ch. 42:6; [Gen. 18:27]dust and ashes.
20I cry to you for help and you do not answer me;
I stand, and you only look at me.
21You have 30:21 Lam. 4:3; [Isa. 63:10] turned cruel to me;
with the might of your hand you 30:21 ch. 16:9persecute me.
and you toss me about in the roar of the storm.
and to the house appointed for 30:23 ch. 28:21all living.
24“Yet does not one in a 30:24 Ps. 79:1; Jer. 26:18; Mic. 1:6; 3:12heap of ruins stretch out his hand,
and in his disaster cry for help?30:24 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain
25Did not I 30:25 Ps. 35:13, 14; Rom. 12:15weep for him whose day was hard?
Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
27My inward parts are in turmoil and never still;
days of affliction 30:27 2 Sam. 22:6; Ps. 18:5come to meet me.
I stand up in 30:28 Prov. 26:26the assembly and cry for help.
and a companion of 30:29 Isa. 13:21; 34:13; Jer. 50:39; Mic. 1:8ostriches.
30My 30:30 [Ps. 119:83; Lam. 4:8; 5:10] skin turns black and falls from me,
and my 30:30 Ps. 102:3bones burn with heat.
and my 30:31 ch. 21:12pipe to the voice of those who weep.
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