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1"But now they mock me; men who are far younger than I, whose fathers I would have hated to entrust with my own sheep dogs.

1But now they mock me, men younger than I am, whose fathers I would have refused to put with my sheep dogs.

2Furthermore, what could I have gained from men whose strength is gone?

2What use to me was the strength of their hands? Their vigor had left them.

3Unproductive due to poverty and hunger, they could only scratch in parched soil, devastated and desolated.

3Emaciated from poverty and hunger, they gnawed the dry land, the desolate wasteland by night.

4"They would pluck off herbs from salt marshes to eat; and roots of the broom shrub for food.

4They plucked mallow among the shrubs, and the roots of the broom tree were their food.

5Driven away from human company, they were shouted at as though they were thieves.

5They were banished from human society; people shouted at them as if they were thieves.

6They lived in the most dangerous of ravines, in holes in the ground, and among rocks.

6They are living on the slopes of the wadis, among the rocks and in holes in the ground.

7They bray like donkeys among the bushes and huddle together under the desert weeds.

7They bray among the shrubs; they huddle beneath the thistles.

8Sons of fools and of uncertain reputation, they have been driven from the land by scourging."

8Foolish men, without even a name. They were forced to leave the land.

9"Now, I've become the object of their mocking melodies; I'm nothing but a fool's proverb to them!

9Now I am mocked by their songs; I have become an object of scorn to them.

10They abhor me—they keep their distance from me; but they don't refrain from spitting at the sight of me.

10They despise me and keep their distance from me; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

11But God has loosened his cord and afflicted me; so they've cast off all restraints in my presence.

11Because God has loosened my bowstring and oppressed me, they have cast off restraint in my presence.

12"A wretched crowd ambushes me to my right; they trip my feet; they build up their path of calamity for me.

12The rabble rise up at my right; they trap my feet and construct their siege ramp against me.

13They tear up my pathways; they profit from my destruction, and they need no help to do this!

13They tear up my path; they contribute to my destruction, without anyone to help them.

14They come like those who breach through a wall; as everything crashes around me they'll roll on and on!

14They advance as through a gaping breach; they keep rolling in through the ruins.

15My greatest fears have overcome me; my honor is assaulted as though by a wind storm; my prosperity evaporates like a morning cloud."

15Terrors are turned loose against me; they chase my dignity away like the wind, and my prosperity has passed by like a cloud.

16"Now, my soul pours itself out; the time of my affliction has taken control of me.

16Now my life is poured out before me, and days of suffering have seized me.

17The night racks my bones; and the pain that gnaws on me will not rest.

17Night pierces my bones, but my gnawing pains never rest.

18My clothes are disheveled by his forceful treatment of me; he restricts my movement like the collar of my cloak.

18My clothing is distorted with great force; he chokes me by the neck of my garment.

19"He tossed me into the mire; I've become like dust and ashes.

19He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

20I cry for help to you, but you won't answer me; I stand still, but you only look at me.

20I cry out to you for help, but you do not answer me; when I stand up, you merely look at me.

21You changed toward me, and now you're cruel to me; with your mighty hand you are persecuting me;

21You have turned against me with cruelty; you harass me with your strong hand.

22you carried me off in a wind storm, making me ride on it while you toss me about as the storm roars around me.

22You lift me up on the wind and make me ride it; you scatter me in the storm.

23I know that you're about to kill me, so I'm about to go to the house that's appointed for all the living."

23Yes, I know that you will lead me to death--the place appointed for all who live.

24"Surely he won't stretch his hand against the needy, will he, especially if they cry to him in their calamity?

24Yet no one would stretch out his hand against a ruined person when he cries out to him for help because of his distress.

25Haven't I wept for the one who is going through hard times? Haven't I grieved for the needy?

25Have I not wept for those who have fallen on hard times? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?

26I have hoped for good, but evil came instead; I have hoped for light, but darkness came.

26But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness came.

27I'm boiling mad inside, and I won't remain silent; the time for my affliction to confront me has arrived.

27I am churning within and cannot rest; days of suffering confront me.

28"In growing darkness, I walked without sunlight; I stood in the congregation to cry for help.

28I walk about blackened, but not by the sun. I stood in the assembly and cried out for help.

29I've become a brother to jackals, and a friend to ostriches.

29I have become a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.

30My skin turns black all over me; and my bones seem burned from the heat.

30My skin blackens and flakes off, and my bones burn with fever.

31But my harp is in mourning; my flute plays only songs for those who are weeping." Job Asserts His Moral Innocence

31My lyre is used for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.

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