Job 30

¹Bvt now they that are yonger then I, mocke me: yea, they whose fathers I haue refused to set with the dogges of my flockes.

²For whereto shoulde the strength of their handes haue serued mee, seeing age perished in them?

³For pouertie and famine they were solitary, fleeing into the wildernes, which is darke, desolate and waste.

⁴They cut vp nettels by the bushes, and the iuniper rootes was their meate.

⁵They were chased forth from among men: they shouted at them, as at a theefe.

⁶Therfore they dwelt in the clefts of riuers, in the holes of the earth and rockes.

⁷They roared among the bushes, and vnder the thistles they gathered themselues.

⁸They were the children of fooles and the children of villaines, which were more vile then the earth.

⁹And now am I their song, and I am their talke.

¹⁰They abhorre me, and flee farre from mee, and spare not to spit in my face.

¹¹Because that God hath loosed my corde and humbled mee, they haue loosed the bridle before me.

¹²The youth rise vp at my right hand: they haue pusht my feete, and haue trode on me as on the paths of their destruction.

¹³They haue destroyed my paths: they tooke pleasure at my calamitie, they had none helpe.

¹⁴They came as a great breach of waters, and vnder this calamitie they come on heapes.