📖 Job 30
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Bvt now they that are yonger then I, mocke me: yea, they whose fathers I haue refused to set with the dogges of my flockes.
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For whereto shoulde the strength of their handes haue serued mee, seeing age perished in them?
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For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.
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They cut vp nettels by the bushes, & the iuniper rootes was their meate.
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They were chased forth fro among men: they shouted at them, as at a theefe.
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Therfore they dwelt in the clefts of riuers, in the holes of the earth and rockes.
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They roared among the bushes, and vnder the thistles they gathered themselues.
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They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth.
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And now am I their song, and I am their talke.
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They abhorre me, & flee farre from mee, and spare not to spit in my face.
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Because that God hath loosed my corde and humbled mee, they haue loosed the bridle before me.
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The youth rise vp at my right hand: they haue pusht my feete, and haue trode on me as on the paths of their destruction.
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They haue destroyed my paths: they tooke pleasure at my calamitie, they had none helpe.
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They came as a great breach of waters, & vnder this calamitie they come on heapes.
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Feare is turned vpon mee: and they pursue my soule as the winde, and mine health passeth away as a cloude.
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Therefore my soule is nowe powred out vpon me, and the dayes of affliction haue taken holde on me.
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It pearceth my bones in the night, and my sinewes take no rest.
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For the great vehemencie is my garment changed, which compasseth me about as the colar of my coate.
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He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like ashes and dust.
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Whe I cry vnto thee, thou doest not heare me, neither regardest me, when I stand vp.
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Thou turnest thy selfe cruelly against me, and art enemie vnto mee with the strength of thine hand.
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Thou takest me vp & causest mee to ride vpo the winde, & makest my strength to faile.
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Surely I knowe that thou wilt bring mee to death, and to the house appoynted for all the liuing.
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Doubtles none can stretch his hand vnto the graue, though they cry in his destruction.
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Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore?
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Yet when I looked for good, euill came vnto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkenesse.
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My bowels did boyle without rest: for the dayes of affliction are come vpon me.
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I went mourning without sunne: I stood vp in the congregation and cryed.
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I am a brother to the dragons, & a companion to the ostriches.
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My skinne is blacke vpon me, & my bones are burnt with heate.
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Therefore mine harpe is turned to mourning, and mine organs into the voyce of them that weepe.