# Job 30 ## Job 30:1 - [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. - [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. - [YLT] And now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock. ### Notes on Job 30:1 - ## Job 30:2 - [KJV] Yea, whereto *might* the strength of their hands *profit* me, in whom old age was perished? - [ASV] Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe age is perished. - [YLT] Also -- the power of their hands, why *is it* to me? On them hath old age perished. ### Notes on Job 30:2 - ## Job 30:3 - [KJV] For want and famine *they were* solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. - [ASV] They are gaunt with want and famine; They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of wasteness and desolation. - [YLT] With want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste, ### Notes on Job 30:3 - ## Job 30:4 - [KJV] Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots *for* their meat. - [ASV] They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their food. - [YLT] Those cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots *is* their food. ### Notes on Job 30:4 - ## Job 30:5 - [KJV] They were driven forth from among *men*, (they cried after them as *after* a thief;) - [ASV] They are driven forth from the midst *of men*; They cry after them as after a thief; - [YLT] From the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief), ### Notes on Job 30:5 - ## Job 30:6 - [KJV] To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, *in* caves of the earth, and *in* the rocks. - [ASV] So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks. - [YLT] In a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts. ### Notes on Job 30:6 - ## Job 30:7 - [KJV] Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. - [ASV] Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles they are gathered together. - [YLT] Among shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together. ### Notes on Job 30:7 - ## Job 30:8 - [KJV] *They were* children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. - [ASV] *They are* children of fools, yea, children of base men; They were scourged out of the land. - [YLT] Sons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land. ### Notes on Job 30:8 - ## Job 30:9 - [KJV] And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. - [ASV] And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them. - [YLT] And now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword. ### Notes on Job 30:9 - ## Job 30:10 - [KJV] They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. - [ASV] They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And spare not to spit in my face. - [YLT] They have abominated me, They have kept far from me, And from before me have not spared to spit. ### Notes on Job 30:10 - ## Job 30:11 - [KJV] Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me. - [ASV] For he hath loosed his cord, and afflicted me; And they have cast off the bridle before me. - [YLT] Because His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away. ### Notes on Job 30:11 - ## Job 30:12 - [KJV] Upon *my* right *hand* rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. - [ASV] Upon my right hand rise the rabble; They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction. - [YLT] On the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity. ### Notes on Job 30:12 - ## Job 30:13 - [KJV] They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper. - [ASV] They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, *Even* men that have no helper. - [YLT] They have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, 'He hath no helper.' ### Notes on Job 30:13 - ## Job 30:14 - [KJV] They came *upon me* as a wide breaking in *of waters*: in the desolation they rolled themselves *upon me*. - [ASV] As through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves *upon me*. - [YLT] As a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves. ### Notes on Job 30:14 - ## Job 30:15 - [KJV] Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. - [ASV] Terrors are turned upon me; They chase mine honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud. - [YLT] He hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away. ### Notes on Job 30:15 - ## Job 30:16 - [KJV] And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. - [ASV] And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me. - [YLT] And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction. ### Notes on Job 30:16 - ## Job 30:17 - [KJV] My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. - [ASV] In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the *pains* that gnaw me take no rest. - [YLT] At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down. ### Notes on Job 30:17 - ## Job 30:18 - [KJV] By the great force *of my disease* is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as 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. - [YLT] By the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me. ### Notes on Job 30:18 - ## Job 30:19 - [KJV] He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. - [ASV] He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes. - [YLT] Casting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes. ### Notes on Job 30:19 - ## Job 30:20 - [KJV] I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me *not*. - [ASV] I cry unto thee, and thou dost not answer me: I stand up, and thou gazest at me. - [YLT] I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer me, I have stood, and Thou dost consider me. ### Notes on Job 30:20 - ## Job 30:21 - [KJV] Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. - [ASV] Thou art turned to be cruel to me; With the might of thy hand thou persecutest me. - [YLT] Thou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppressest me. ### Notes on Job 30:21 - ## Job 30:22 - [KJV] Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride *upon it*, and dissolvest my substance. - [ASV] Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride *upon it*; And thou dissolvest me in the storm. - [YLT] Thou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest -- Thou levellest me. ### Notes on Job 30:22 - ## Job 30:23 - [KJV] For I know *that* thou wilt bring me *to* death, and *to* the house appointed for all living. - [ASV] For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the house appointed for all living. - [YLT] For I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And *to* the house appointed for all living. ### Notes on Job 30:23 - ## Job 30:24 - [KJV] Howbeit he will not stretch out *his* hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction. - [ASV] Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help? - [YLT] Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety. ### Notes on Job 30:24 - ## Job 30:25 - [KJV] Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was *not* my soul grieved for the poor? - [ASV] Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy? - [YLT] Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy. ### Notes on Job 30:25 - ## Job 30:26 - [KJV] When I looked for good, then evil came *unto me*: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. - [ASV] When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness. - [YLT] When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh. ### Notes on Job 30:26 - ## Job 30:27 - [KJV] My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. - [ASV] My heart is troubled, and resteth not; Days of affliction are come upon me. - [YLT] My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction. ### Notes on Job 30:27 - ## Job 30:28 - [KJV] I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, *and* I cried in the congregation. - [ASV] I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help. - [YLT] Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry. ### Notes on Job 30:28 - ## Job 30:29 - [KJV] I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. - [ASV] I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches. - [YLT] A brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich. ### Notes on Job 30:29 - ## Job 30:30 - [KJV] My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. - [ASV] My skin is black, *and falleth* from me, And my bones are burned with heat. - [YLT] My skin hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat, ### Notes on Job 30:30 - ## Job 30:31 - [KJV] My harp also is *turned* to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. - [ASV] Therefore is my harp *turned* to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep. - [YLT] And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping. ### Notes on Job 30:31 -