King James Bible | English Standard Version |
1But 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. | 1“But now they laugh at me, men who are younger than I, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. |
2Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished? | 2What could I gain from the strength of their hands, men whose vigor is gone? |
3For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. | 3Through want and hard hunger they gnaw the dry ground by night in waste and desolation; |
4Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat. | 4they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes, and the roots of the broom tree for their food. |
5They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;) | 5They are driven out from human company; they shout after them as after a thief. |
6To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. | 6In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell, in holes of the earth and of the rocks. |
7Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. | 7Among the bushes they bray; under the nettles they huddle together. |
8They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. | 8A senseless, a nameless brood, they have been whipped out of the land. |
9And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. | 9“And now I have become their song; I am a byword to them. |
10They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. | 10They abhor me; they keep aloof from me; they do not hesitate to spit at the sight of me. |
11Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. | 11Because God has loosed my cord and humbled me, they have cast off restraint in my presence. |
12Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. | 12On my right hand the rabble rise; they push away my feet; they cast up against me their ways of destruction. |
13They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. | 13They break up my path; they promote my calamity; they need no one to help them. |
14They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me. | 14As through a wide breach they come; amid the crash they roll on. |
15Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. | 15Terrors are turned upon me; my honor is pursued as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed away like a cloud. |
16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. | 16“And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me. |
17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. | 17The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest. |
18By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. | 18With great force my garment is disfigured; it binds me about like the collar of my tunic. |
19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. | 19God has cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes. |
20I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. | 20I cry to you for help and you do not answer me; I stand, and you only look at me. |
21Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. | 21You have turned cruel to me; with the might of your hand you persecute me. |
22Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance. | 22You lift me up on the wind; you make me ride on it, and you toss me about in the roar of the storm. |
23For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. | 23For I know that you will bring me to death and to the house appointed for all living. |
24Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. | 24“Yet does not one in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand, and in his disaster cry for help? |
25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? | 25Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy? |
26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. | 26But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came. |
27My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. | 27My inward parts are in turmoil and never still; days of affliction come to meet me. |
28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. | 28I go about darkened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help. |
29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. | 29I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches. |
30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. | 30My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat. |
31My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. | 31My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep. |
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