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30 : 1 But now they mock me, men younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs.
30 : 2 Of what use was the strength of their hands to me, since their vigor had gone from them?
30 : 3 Haggard from want and hunger, they roamed the parched land in desolate wastelands at night.
30 : 4 In the brush they gathered salt herbs, and their food was the root of the broom tree.
30 : 5 They were banished from their fellow men, shouted at as if they were thieves.
30 : 6 They were forced to live in the dry stream beds, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
30 : 7 They brayed among the bushes and huddled in the undergrowth.
30 : 8 A base and nameless brood, they were driven out of the land.
30 : 9 And now their sons mock me in song; I have become a byword among them.
30 : 10 They detest me and keep their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
30 : 11 Now that God has unstrung my bow and afflicted me, they throw off restraint in my presence.
30 : 12 On my right the tribe attacks; they lay snares for my feet, they build their siege ramps against me.
30 : 13 They break up my road; they succeed in destroying me-- without anyone`s helping them.
30 : 14 They advance as through a gaping breach; amid the ruins they come rolling in.
30 : 15 Terrors overwhelm me; my dignity is driven away as by the wind, my safety vanishes like a cloud.
30 : 16 And now my life ebbs away; days of suffering grip me.
30 : 17 Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never rest.
30 : 18 In his great power God becomes like clothing to me ; he binds me like the neck of my garment.
30 : 19 He throws me into the mud, and I am reduced to dust and ashes.
30 : 20 I cry out to you, O God, but you do not answer; I stand up, but you merely look at me.
30 : 21 You turn on me ruthlessly; with the might of your hand you attack me.
30 : 22 You snatch me up and drive me before the wind; you toss me about in the storm.
30 : 23 I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living.
30 : 24 Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man when he cries for help in his distress.
30 : 25 Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor?
30 : 26 Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness.
30 : 27 The churning inside me never stops; days of suffering confront me.
30 : 28 I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
30 : 29 I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of owls.
30 : 30 My skin grows black and peels; my body burns with fever.
30 : 31 My harp is tuned to mourning, and my flute to the sound of wailing.