Job:30:10: They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
Job:30:11: Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
Job:30:12: Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
Job:30:13: They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
Job:30:14: They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
Job:30:15: Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
Job:30:16: And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
Job:30:17: My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
Job:30:18: By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
Job:30:19: He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Job:30:20: I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
Job:30:21: Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
Job:30:22: Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
Job:30:23: For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
Job:30:24: Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
Job:30:25: Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
Job:30:26: When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Job:30:27: My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
Job:30:28: I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
Job:30:29: I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
Job:30:30: My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
Job:30:31: My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

Chapter 31

Job:31:1: I made a covenant with mine eyes; why then should I think upon a maid?
Job:31:2: For what portion of God is there from above? and what inheritance of the Almighty from on high?
Job:31:3: Is not destruction to the wicked? and a strange punishment to the workers of iniquity?
Job:31:4: Doth not he see my ways, and count all my steps?
Job:31:5: If I have walked with vanity, or if my foot hath hasted to deceit;
Job:31:6: Let me be weighed in an even balance, that God may know mine integrity.
Job:31:7: If my step hath turned out of the way, and mine heart walked after mine eyes, and if any blot hath cleaved to mine hands;
Job:31:8: Then let me sow, and let another eat; yea, let my offspring be rooted out.
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