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Job 30

1.But now they that are yonger then I, mocke me: yea, thei whose fathers I have refused to set with the dogges of my flockes.
2.For where to shulde the strength of their hands have served me, seing age perished in them?
3.For povertie and famine they were solitarie, fleing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.
4.They cut up nettels by the bushes, and the juniper rootes was their meat.
5.Thei were chased forthe from among men: they showted at them, as at a thefe.
6.Therefore they dwelt in the clefts of rivers, in the holes of the earth and rockes.
7.They roared among the bushes, & under the thistels they gathered them selves.
8.They were the children of fooles & the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth.
9.And now am I their song, and I am their talke.
10.They abhorre me, and flee farre from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
11.Because that God hathe losed my corde & humbled me, they have losed the bridel before me.
12.The youth rise up at my right hand: they have pusht my fete, and have trode on me as on the paths of their destructtion.
13.They have destroyed my paths: they toke pleasure at my calamitie, they had none helpe.
14.They came as a great breache of waters, and under this calamitie they come on heapes.
15.Feare is turned upon me: and thei pursue my soule as the winde, and mine health passeth away as a cloude.
16.Therefore my soule is now powred out upon me, and the dayes of affliction have taken holde on me.
17.It perceth my bones in the night, & my sinewes take no rest.
18.For the great vehemencie is my garment changed, which compasseth me about as the colar of my coate.
19.He hathe cast me into the myre, and I am become like ashes and dust.
20.When I crye unto thee, thou doest not heare me, nether regardest me, when I stand up. Job’s uprightnes Job. 30:
21.Thou turnest thy self cruelly against me, and art enemie unto me with the strength of thine hand.
22.Thou takest me up and causest me to ride upon the winde, and makest my strength to faile.
23.Surely I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all the living.
24.Doutles none can stretche his hand unto the grave, thogh they crye in his destruction.
25.Did not I wepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heaviness for the poore?
26.Yet when I loked for good, evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkenes.
27.My bowels did boyle without rest: for the dayes of affliction are come upon me.
28.I went mourning without sunne: I stode up in the congregacion and cryed.
29.I am a brother to the dragons, and a companion to the ostriches.
30.My skinne is blacke upon me, and my bones are burnt with heat.
31.Therefore mine harp is turned to mourning, and mine organs into the voyce of them that wepe.

Notes

1-a.
That is, my estate is changed, and whereas before the ancient men were glad to do me reverence, the young men now contemn me.
1-b.
Meaning, to be my shepherds, or to keep my dogs.
2-c.
That is, their fathers died for famine before they came to age.
4-^.
Or, mallows.
5-d.
Job shows that these that mocked him in his affliction, were like to their fathers, wicked, & lewd fellows, such as he here describes.
9-e.
They make songs of me, and mock at my misery.
11-f.
God has taken from me the force, credit and authority, where- with I kept them in subjection.
11-g.
He said that the young men when they saw him, hid them- selves, as ch. 29.8, and now in his misery they were impudent and licentious.
12-h.
That is, they sought by all means how they might destroy me.
13-i.
They need none to help them.
14-k.
By my calamity they took an occasion against me.
16-l.
My life fails me, and I am as half dead.
17-m.
Meaning, sorrow.
19-n.
That is, God has brought me into contempt. 0
21-o.
He speaks not thus to accuse God, but to declare the vehemencie of his affliction, whereby he was carried beside himself.
22-^.
Or, wisdom, or Law.
22-p.
He compares his afflictions to a tempest, or whirlwind.
24-q.
None can deliver me thence though they lament at my death.
26-r.
Instead of comforting they mocked at me.
28-s.
Not delighting in any worldly thing, no not so much, as in the use of the sun.
28-t.
Lamenting them that were in affliction, and moving others to pity them.
29-u.
I am like the wild beasts that desire most solitary places.
30-x.
With the heat of affliction.