17:1 My spirit is broken,
my days have faded out,
the grave
18:1 Then Bildad the Shuhite answered:
18:2 “How long until you
You must consider,
18:3 Why should we be regarded as beasts,
and considered stupid
18:4 You who tear yourself
will the earth be abandoned
Or will a rock be moved from its place?
18:5 “Yes,
his flame of fire
18:6 The light in his tent grows dark;
his lamp above him is extinguished.
18:7 His vigorous steps
and his own counsel throws him down.
18:8 For he has been thrown into a net by his feet
and he wanders into a mesh.
18:9 A trap
a snare
18:10 A rope is hidden for him
and a trap for him
18:11 Terrors
and dog
18:12 Calamity is
and misfortune is ready at his side.
18:13 It eats away parts of his skin;
the most terrible death
18:14 He is dragged from the security of his tent,
and marched off
18:15 Fire resides in his tent;
over his residence burning sulfur is scattered.
18:16 Below his roots dry up,
and his branches wither above.
18:17 His memory perishes from the earth,
he has no name in the land.
18:18 He is driven
and is banished from the world.
18:19 He has neither children nor descendants
no survivor in those places he once stayed.
18:20 People of the west
people of the east are seized with horror,
18:21 ‘Surely such is the residence
and this is the place of one who has not known God.’”
30:1 “But now they mock me, those who are younger
whose fathers I disdained too much
to put with my sheep dogs.
30:2 Moreover, the strength of their
what use was it to me?
Men whose strength
30:3 gaunt
they would gnaw
in former time desolate and waste.
30:4 By the brush
and the root of the broom tree was their food.
30:5 They were banished from the community
people
like they would shout at thieves
30:6 so that they had to live
in the dry stream beds,
in the holes of the ground, and among the rocks.
30:7 They brayed
and were huddled together
30:8 Sons of senseless and nameless people,
they were driven out of the land with whips.
30:9 “And now I have become their taunt song;
I have become a byword
30:10 They detest me and maintain their distance;
they do not hesitate to spit in my face.
30:11 Because God has untied
people throw off all restraint in my presence.
30:12 On my right the young rabble
they drive me from place to place,
and build up siege ramps
30:13 They destroy
they succeed in destroying me
without anyone assisting
30:14 They come in as through a wide breach;
amid the crash
30:15 Terrors are turned loose
they drive away
and like a cloud my deliverance has passed away.
30:16 “And now my soul pours itself out within me;
days of suffering take hold of me.
30:17 Night pierces
my gnawing pains
30:18 With great power God
he binds me like the collar
30:19 He has flung me into the mud,
and I have come to resemble dust and ashes.
30:20 I cry out to you,
I stand up,
30:21 You have become cruel to me;
with the strength of your hand you attack me.
30:22 You pick me up on the wind and make me ride on it;
you toss me about
30:23 I know that you are bringing
to the meeting place for all the living.
30:24 “Surely one does not stretch out his hand
against a broken man
when he cries for help in his distress.
30:25 Have I not wept for the unfortunate?
Was not my soul grieved for the poor?
30:26 But when I hoped for good, trouble came;
when I expected light, then darkness came.
30:27 My heart
the days of my affliction confront me.
30:28 I go about blackened,
in the assembly I stand up and cry for help.
30:29 I have become a brother to jackals
and a companion of ostriches.
30:30 My skin has turned dark on me;
my body
30:31 My harp is used for
and my flute for the sound of weeping.