Job 30
Job Continues: But Now They Mock Me
1 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. Parallel theme: Job 12:4, Psalms 69:12, Luke 23:35
2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste. Parallel theme: Job 24:5
4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;) Parallel theme: Daniel 4:25
6 To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks. Parallel theme: Judges 6:2
7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together. Parallel theme: Job 6:5, 11:12, Genesis 16:12
8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth. Parallel theme: Proverbs 1:22, 16:22, Isaiah 32:6, Jeremiah 7:18, Mark 6:24
9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword. Word: Job 17:6. Parallel theme: Lamentations 3:14, 3:63
10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face. Parallel theme: Numbers 12:14, Deuteronomy 25:9, Psalms 88:8, Isaiah 50:6, Matthew 26:67, 27:30
11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction. Resurrection: Job 19:12
13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. Parallel theme: Job 6:4, Isaiah 44:22, Hosea 13:3
16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. Parallel theme: Psalms 22:14, 42:4, Isaiah 53:12
17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. Parallel theme: Isaiah 38:13
18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. Parallel theme: Job 2:7
19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. Parallel theme: Job 9:31, 42:6, Genesis 18:27
20 I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not. Parallel theme: Job 19:7, 27:9, Psalms 22:2, Lamentations 3:8, 3:44, Matthew 15:23
21 Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me. Parallel theme: 1 Peter 5:6
22 Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance. Parallel theme: Job 27:21
23 For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
24 Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor? Parallel theme: Jeremiah 13:17, Romans 12:15
26 When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness. Good: Jeremiah 8:15, 14:19. Light: Psalms 97:11, Isaiah 50:10. Evil: Micah 1:12
27 My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me. Parallel theme: Lamentations 2:11
28 I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. Parallel theme: Job 19:7, Psalms 38:6, 42:9, 43:2
29 I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. Parallel theme: Psalms 102:6, Micah 1:8
30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat. Parallel theme: Psalms 102:3, 119:83, Lamentations 4:8
31 My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep. Parallel theme: Isaiah 21:4, Lamentations 5:15