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30:1 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.
30:2 For whereto shoulde the strength of their handes haue serued mee, seeing age perished in them?
30:3 For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.
30:4 They cut vp nettels by the bushes, and the iuniper rootes was their meate.
30:5 They were chased forth from among men: they shouted at them, as at a theefe.
30:6 Therfore they dwelt in the clefts of riuers, in the holes of the earth and rockes.
30:7 They roared among the bushes, and vnder the thistles they gathered themselues.
30:8 They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth.
30:9 And now am I their song, and I am their talke.
30:10 They abhorre me, and flee farre from mee, and spare not to spit in my face.
30:11 Because that God hath loosed my corde and humbled mee, they haue loosed the bridle before me.
30:12 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.
30:13 They haue destroyed my paths: they tooke pleasure at my calamitie, they had none helpe.
30:14 They came as a great breach of waters, and vnder this calamitie they come on heapes.
30:15 Feare is turned vpon mee: and they pursue my soule as the winde, and mine health passeth away as a cloude.
30:16 Therefore my soule is nowe powred out vpon me, and the dayes of affliction haue taken holde on me.
30:17 It pearceth my bones in the night, and my sinewes take no rest.
30:18 For the great vehemencie is my garment changed, which compasseth me about as the colar of my coate.
30:19 He hath cast me into the myre, and I am become like ashes and dust.
30:20 Whe I cry vnto thee, thou doest not heare me, neither regardest me, when I stand vp.
30:21 Thou turnest thy selfe cruelly against me, and art enemie vnto mee with the strength of thine hand.
30:22 Thou takest me vp and causest mee to ride vpon the winde, and makest my strength to faile.
30:23 Surely I knowe that thou wilt bring mee to death, and to the house appoynted for all the liuing.
30:24 Doubtles none can stretch his hand vnto the graue, though they cry in his destruction.
30:25 Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore?
30:26 Yet when I looked for good, euill came vnto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkenesse.
30:27 My bowels did boyle without rest: for the dayes of affliction are come vpon me.
30:28 I went mourning without sunne: I stood vp in the congregation and cryed.
30:29 I am a brother to the dragons, and a companion to the ostriches.
30:30 My skinne is blacke vpon me, and my bones are burnt with heate.
30:31 Therefore mine harpe is turned to mourning, and mine organs into the voyce of them that weepe.