Job 30:1

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ASV: They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And spare not 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ASV: He hath cast me into the mire, And I am 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

ASV: I go mourning without 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

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

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

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

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

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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