Job 30:1

AMP: “But now those younger than I mock and laugh at me,Whose fathers I refused to put with the sheepdogs of my flock.

ASV: But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

BSB: “But now they mock me,men younger than I am,whose fathers I would have refusedto put with my sheep dogs.

DARBY: But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.

DRA: But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:

KJV: 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.

Job 30:2

AMP: “Indeed, how could the strength of their hands profit me?Vigor had perished from them.

ASV: Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished.

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

DARBY: Yea, whereto [should] the strength of their hands [profit] me, [men] in whom vigour hath perished?

DRA: The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.

KJV: Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?

Job 30:3

AMP: “They are gaunt with want and famine;They gnaw the dry and barren ground by night in [the gloom of] waste and desolation.

ASV: They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation.

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

DARBY: Withered up through want and hunger, they flee into waste places long since desolate and desert:

DRA: Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.

KJV: For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.

Job 30:4

AMP: “They pluck [and eat] saltwort (mallows) among the bushes,And their food is the root of the broom shrub.

ASV: They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food.

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

DARBY: They gather the salt-wort among the bushes, and the roots of the broom for their food.

DRA: And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.

KJV: Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.

Job 30:5

AMP: “They are driven from the community;They shout after them as after a thief.

ASV: They are driven forth from the midst [of men]; They cry after them as after a thief;

BSB: They were banished from among men,shouted at like thieves,

DARBY: They are driven forth from among [men] they cry after them as after a thief

DRA: Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.

KJV: They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)

Job 30:6

AMP: “They must dwell on the slopes of wadisAnd in holes in the ground and in rocks.

ASV: So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks.

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

DARBY: To dwell in gloomy gorges, in caves of the earth and the rocks:

DRA: They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel.

KJV: To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.

Job 30:7

AMP: “Among the bushes they cry out [like wild animals];Beneath the prickly scrub they gather and huddle together.

ASV: Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together.

BSB: They cried out among the shrubsand huddled beneath the nettles.

DARBY: They bray among the bushes; under the brambles they are gathered together:

DRA: They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted it delightful to be under the briers.

KJV: Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.

Job 30:8

AMP: “They are the sons of [worthless and nameless] fools,They have been driven out of the land.

ASV: [They are] children of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land.

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

DARBY: Sons of fools, and sons of nameless sires, they are driven out of the land.

DRA: The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.

KJV: They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.

Job 30:9

AMP: ¶“And now I have become [the subject of] their taunting;Yes, I am a byword and a laughingstock to them.

ASV: And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them.

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

DARBY: And now I am their song, yea, I am their byword.

DRA: Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.

KJV: And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.

Job 30:10

AMP: “They hate me, they stand aloof from me,And do not refrain from spitting in my face.

ASV: They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And spare not to spit in my face.

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

DARBY: They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, yea, they spare not to spit in my face.

DRA: They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face.

KJV: They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.

Job 30:11

AMP: “For God has loosed His bowstring [attacking me] and [He has] afflicted and humbled me;They have cast off the bridle [of restraint] before me.

ASV: For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me; And they have cast off the bridle before me.

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

DARBY: For he hath loosed my cord and afflicted me; so they cast off the bridle before me.

DRA: For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath put a bridle into my mouth.

KJV: Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.

Job 30:12

AMP: “On my right the [rabble] brood rises;They push my feet away, and they build up their ways of destruction against me [like an advancing army].

ASV: Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction.

BSB: The rabble arises at my right;they lay snares for my feetand build siege ramps against me.

DARBY: At [my] right hand rise the young brood; they push away my feet, and raise up against me their pernicious ways;

DRA: At the right hand of my rising, my calamities forthwith arose: they have overthrown my feet, and have overwhelmed me with their paths as with waves.

KJV: Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.

Job 30:13

AMP: “They break up and clutter my path [upsetting my plans],They profit from my destruction;No one restrains them.

ASV: They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, [Even] men that have no helper.

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

DARBY: They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, without any to help them;

DRA: They have destroyed my ways, they have lain in wait against me, and they have prevailed, and there was none to help.

KJV: They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.

Job 30:14

AMP: “As through a wide breach they come,Amid the crash [of falling walls] they roll on [over me].

ASV: As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves [upon me].

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

DARBY: They come in as through a wide breach: amid the confusion they roll themselves onward.

DRA: They have rushed in upon me, as when a wall is broken, and a gate opened, and have rolled themselves down to my miseries.

KJV: They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.

Job 30:15

AMP: “Terrors are turned upon me;They chase away my honor and reputation like the wind,And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.

ASV: Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.

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

DARBY: Terrors are turned against me; they pursue mine honour as the wind; and my welfare is passed away like a cloud.

DRA: I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.

KJV: Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

Job 30:16

AMP: ¶“And now my soul is poured out within me;The days of affliction have seized me.

ASV: And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

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

DARBY: And now my soul is poured out in me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

DRA: And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me.

KJV: And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

Job 30:17

AMP: “My bones are pierced [with aching] in the night season,And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

ASV: In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.

BSB: Night pierces my bones,and my gnawing pains never rest.

DARBY: The night pierceth through my bones [and detacheth them] from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:

DRA: In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.

KJV: My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

Job 30:18

AMP: “By the great force [of my disease] my garment (skin) is disfigured and blemished;It binds about me [choking me] like the collar of my coat.

ASV: By [God`s] great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

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

DARBY: By their great force they have become my raiment; they bind me about as the collar of my coat.

DRA: With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat.

KJV: By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

Job 30:19

AMP: “God has cast me into the mire [a swampland of crisis],And I have become [worthless] like dust and ashes.

ASV: He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.

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

DARBY: He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.

DRA: I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.

KJV: He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

Job 30:20

AMP: “I cry to You for help, [Lord,] but You do not answer me;I stand up, but You [only] gaze [indifferently] at me.

ASV: I cry unto thee, and thou dost not answer me: I stand up, and thou gazest at me.

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

DARBY: I cry unto thee, and thou answerest me not; I stand up, and thou lookest at me.

DRA: I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.

KJV: I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

Job 30:21

AMP: “You have become harsh and cruel to me;With the might of Your hand You [keep me alive only to] persecute me.

ASV: Thou art turned to be cruel to me; With the might of thy hand thou persecutest me.

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

DARBY: Thou art changed to a cruel one to me; with the strength of thy hand thou pursuest me.

DRA: Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.

KJV: Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

Job 30:22

AMP: “You lift me up on the wind and cause me to ride [upon it];And You toss me about in the tempest and dissolve me in the storm.

ASV: Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride [upon it]; And thou dissolvest me in the storm.

BSB: You snatch me up into the windand drive me before it;You toss me about in the storm.

DARBY: Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to be borne away, and dissolvest my substance.

DRA: Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me.

KJV: Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

Job 30:23

AMP: “For I know that You will bring me to deathAnd to the house of meeting [appointed] for all the living.

ASV: For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living.

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

DARBY: For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and into the house of assemblage for all living.

DRA: I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.

KJV: For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Job 30:24

AMP: ¶“However, does not one falling in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand?Or in his disaster [will he not] therefore cry out for help?

ASV: Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?

BSB: Yet no one stretches out his hand against a ruined manwhen he cries for help in his distress.

DARBY: Indeed, no prayer [availeth] when he stretcheth out [his] hand: though they cry when he destroyeth.

DRA: But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.

KJV: Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

Job 30:25

AMP: “Did I not weep for one whose life was hard and filled with trouble?Was not my heart grieved for the needy?

ASV: Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

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

DARBY: Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy?

DRA: I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.

KJV: Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

Job 30:26

AMP: “When I expected good, then came evil [to me];And when I waited for light, then came darkness.

ASV: When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness.

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

DARBY: For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.

DRA: I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.

KJV: When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Job 30:27

AMP: “I am seething within and my heart is troubled and cannot rest;Days of affliction come to meet me.

ASV: My heart is troubled, and resteth not; Days of affliction are come upon me.

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

DARBY: My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me.

DRA: My inner parts have boiled without any rest, the days of affliction have prevented me.

KJV: My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

Job 30:28

AMP: “I go about mourning without comfort [my skin blackened by disease, not by the heat of the sun];I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.

ASV: I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

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

DARBY: I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation.

DRA: I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd.

KJV: I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

Job 30:29

AMP: “I am a brother to [howling] jackals,And a companion to ostriches [which scream dismally].

ASV: I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches.

BSB: I have become a brother of jackals,a companion of ostriches.

DARBY: I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches.

DRA: I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.

KJV: I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

Job 30:30

AMP: “My skin falls from me in blackened flakes,And my bones are burned with fever.

ASV: My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are burned with heat.

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

DARBY: My skin is become black [and falleth] off me, and my bones are parched with heat.

DRA: My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.

KJV: My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Job 30:31

AMP: “Therefore my lyre (harp) is used for [the sound of] mourning,And my flute for the [sound of the] voices of those who weep.

ASV: Therefore is my harp [turned] to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.

BSB: My harp is tuned to mourningand my flute to the sound of weeping.[’’]

DARBY: My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers.

DRA: My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.

KJV: My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

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