Job 30 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021(NRSVUE)

Job 30

1 them.

14As through a wide breach they come;

amid the crash they roll on.

15

he grasps me by the collar of my tunic.

19

when in disaster they cry for help.

25 Ps 35.13, 14; Rom 12.15 Did I not weep for those whose day was hard?

Was not my soul grieved for the poor?

26 Job 3.25, 26; 19.8; Jer 8.15 But when I looked for good, evil came,

and when I waited for light, darkness came.

27My inward parts are in turmoil and are never still;

days of affliction come to meet me.

28 Job 19.7; Ps 38.6; 42.9; 43.2 I go about in sunless gloom;

I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

29 Mic 1.8 I am a brother of jackals

and a companion of ostriches.

30 Ps 102.3; 119.83; Lam 4.8 My skin turns black and falls from me,

and my bones burn with heat.

31 Ps 107.1, 2 My lyre is turned to mourning

and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.