Job 30 - Compare Translations
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Job 30:1
KJVBut now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
WEB“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision,
YLTAnd now, laughed at me, Have the younger in days than I, Whose fathers I have loathed to set With the dogs of my flock.
Job 30:2
KJVYea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
WEBOf what use is the strength of their hands to me,
YLTAlso -- the power of their hands, why [is it] to me? On them hath old age perished.
Job 30:3
KJVFor want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
WEBThey are gaunt from lack and famine.
YLTWith want and with famine gloomy, Those fleeing to a dry place, Formerly a desolation and waste,
Job 30:4
KJVWho cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
WEBThey pluck salt herbs by the bushes.
YLTThose cropping mallows near a shrub, And broom-roots [is] their food.
Job 30:5
KJVThey were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
WEBThey are driven out from among men.
YLTFrom the midst they are cast out, (They shout against them as a thief),
Job 30:6
KJVTo dwell in the cliffs of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
WEBSo that they dwell in frightful valleys,
YLTIn a frightful place of valleys to dwell, Holes of earth and clefts.
Job 30:7
KJVAmong the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
WEBAmong the bushes they bray;
YLTAmong shrubs they do groan, Under nettles they are gathered together.
Job 30:8
KJVThey were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
WEBThey are children of fools, yes, children of wicked men.
YLTSons of folly -- even sons without name, They have been smitten from the land.
Job 30:9
KJVAnd now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
WEB“Now I have become their song.
YLTAnd now, their song I have been, And I am to them for a byword.
Job 30:10
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Job 30:11
KJVBecause he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
WEBFor he has untied his cord, and afflicted me;
YLTBecause His cord He loosed and afflicteth me, And the bridle from before me, They have cast away.
Job 30:12
KJVUpon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
WEBOn my right hand rise the rabble.
YLTOn the right hand doth a brood arise, My feet they have cast away, And they raise up against me, Their paths of calamity.
Job 30:13
KJVThey mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
WEBThey mar my path,
YLTThey have broken down my path, By my calamity they profit, `He hath no helper.'
Job 30:14
KJVThey came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
WEBAs through a wide breach they come,
YLTAs a wide breach they come, Under the desolation have rolled themselves.
Job 30:15
KJVTerrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
WEBTerrors have turned on me.
YLTHe hath turned against me terrors, It pursueth as the wind mine abundance, And as a thick cloud, Hath my safety passed away.
Job 30:16
KJVAnd now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
WEB“Now my soul is poured out within me.
YLTAnd now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction.
Job 30:17
KJVMy bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
WEBIn the night season my bones are pierced in me,
YLTAt night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.
Job 30:18
KJVBy the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
WEBBy great force is my garment disfigured.
YLTBy the abundance of power, Is my clothing changed, As the mouth of my coat it doth gird me.
Job 30:19
KJVHe hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
WEBHe has cast me into the mire.
YLTCasting me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
Job 30:20
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Job 30:21
KJVThou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
WEBYou have turned to be cruel to me.
YLTThou art turned to be fierce to me, With the strength of Thy hand, Thou oppresest me.
Job 30:22
KJVThou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
WEBYou lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it.
YLTThou dost lift me up, On the wind Thou dost cause me to ride, And Thou meltest -- Thou levellest me.
Job 30:23
KJVFor I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
WEBFor I know that you will bring me to death,
YLTFor I have known To death Thou dost bring me back, And [to] the house appointed for all living.
Job 30:24
KJVHowbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
WEB“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall?
YLTSurely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.
Job 30:25
KJVDid not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
WEBDidn’t I weep for him who was in trouble?
YLTDid not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.
Job 30:26
KJVWhen I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
WEBWhen I looked for good, then evil came;
YLTWhen good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.
Job 30:27
KJVMy bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
WEBMy heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest.
YLTMy bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.
Job 30:28
KJVI went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
WEBI go mourning without the sun.
YLTMourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry.
Job 30:29
KJVI am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
WEBI am a brother to jackals,
YLTA brother I have been to dragons, And a companion to daughters of the ostrich.
Job 30:30
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Job 30:31
KJVMy harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
WEBTherefore my harp has turned to mourning,
YLTAnd my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.
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