Job 30:1-15
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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.
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2 Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
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3 For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
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4 Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
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5 They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
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6 To dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
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7 Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
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8 They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
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9 And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
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10 They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
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11 Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
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12 Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
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13 They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
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14 They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
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15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.