1 | "But now those who are younger than I, have me in derision, Whose fathers I would have disdained to put with my sheep dogs. | Jb 19:13-19 Jb 29:8-10 2Ki 2:23 Isa 3:5 |
2 | Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, Men in whom ripe age has perished? |
3 | They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation. | Jb 24:13-16 |
4 | They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom are their food. | 2Ki 4:38 2Ki 4:39 Am 7:14 Lk 15:16 |
5 | They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief; | Gn 4:12-14 Ps 109:10 Dn 4:25 Dn 4:32 Dn 4:33 |
6 | So that they dwell in frightful valleys, And in holes of the earth and of the rocks. | Jg 6:2 1Sa 22:1 1Sa 22:2 Isa 2:19 Rev 6:15 |
7 | Among the bushes they bray; And under the nettles they are gathered together. | Jb 6:5 Jb 11:12 Gn 16:12 |
8 | They are children of fools, yes, children of base men. They were flogged out of the land. | 2Ki 8:18 2Ki 8:27 2Ch 22:3 Ps 49:10-13 Jer 7:18 Mk 6:24 |
9 | "Now I have become their song. Yes, I am a byword to them. | Jb 17:6 Ps 35:15 Ps 35:16 Ps 44:14 Ps 69:12 Lam 3:14 Lam 3:63 |
10 | They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And don`t hesitate to spit in my face. | Jb 19:19 Jb 42:6 Ps 88:8 Zc 11:8 |
11 | For he has loosed his cord, and afflicted me; And they have thrown off restraint before me. | Jb 12:18 Jb 12:21 2Sa 16:5-8 |
12 | On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction. | Jb 19:18 Isa 3:5 |
13 | They mar my path, They set forward my calamity, Without anyone`s help. | Ps 69:26 Zc 1:15 |
14 | As through a wide breach they come, In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves in. | Jb 22:16 Ps 18:4 Ps 69:14 Ps 69:15 Isa 8:7 Isa 8:8 |
15 | Terrors are turned on me. They chase my honor as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud. | Jb 6:4 Jb 7:14 Jb 9:27 Jb 9:28 Jb 10:16 Ps 88:15 |
16 | "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me. | Ps 22:14 Ps 42:4 Isa 53:12 |
17 | In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the pains that gnaw me take no rest. | Jb 33:19-21 Ps 6:2-6 Ps 38:2-8 |
18 | By great force is my garment disfigured. It binds me about as the collar of my coat. | Jb 2:7 Jb 7:5 Jb 19:20 Ps 38:5 Isa 1:5 Isa 1:6 |
19 | He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes. | Jb 9:31 Ps 69:1 Ps 69:2 Jer 38:6 |
20 | I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me. | Jb 19:7 Jb 27:9 Ps 22:2 Ps 80:4 Ps 80:5 Lam 3:8 Lam 3:44 Mt 15:23 |
21 | You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me. | Jb 7:20 Jb 7:21 Jb 10:14-17 Jb 13:25-28 Jb 16:9-14 Jb 19:6-9 Ps 77:7-9 Jer 30:14 |
22 | You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm. | Jb 21:18 Ps 1:4 Isa 17:13 Jer 4:11 Jer 4:12 Ezk 5:2 Hos 4:19 Hos 13:3 |
23 | For I know that you will bring me to death, To the house appointed for all living. | Jb 14:5 Jb 21:33 Gn 3:19 2Sa 14:14 Ec 8:8 Ec 9:5 Ec 12:5-7 Heb 9:27 |
24 | "However doesn`t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help? | Jg 5:31 Ps 35:25 Mt 27:39-44 |
25 | Didn`t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn`t my soul grieved for the needy? | Ps 35:13 Ps 35:14 Jer 13:17 Jer 18:20 Lk 19:41 Jn 11:35 Ro 12:15 |
26 | When I looked for good, then evil came; When I waited for light, there came darkness. | Jb 3:25 Jb 3:26 Jb 29:18 Jer 8:15 Jer 14:19 Jer 15:18 Mic 1:12 |
27 | My heart is troubled, and doesn`t rest. Days of affliction have come on me. | Ps 22:4 Jer 4:19 Jer 31:20 Lam 1:20 Lam 2:11 |
28 | I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help. | Ps 38:6 Ps 42:9 Ps 43:2 Isa 53:3 Isa 53:4 Lam 3:1-3 |
29 | I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches. | Jb 17:14 Ps 102:6 Isa 13:21 Isa 13:22 Isa 38:14 Mic 1:8 Mal 1:3 |
30 | My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat. | Ps 119:83 Lam 3:4 Lam 4:8 Lam 5:10 |
31 | Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of those who weep. | Ps 137:1-4 Ec 3:4 Isa 21:4 Isa 22:12 Isa 24:7-9 Lam 5:15 Dn 6:18 |