Thematic Bible
Job 30:1 (show verse)
Whose fathers I refused to put with the sheepdogs of my flock.
Dog » Shepherd dogs
Dogs » When domesticated » Employed in watching flocks
Job » Loss of friends
Mocking » The tormentors of job mock
Old age » Disrespect for pleasure-seeking » Prodigality
Persecution » Instances of » Of job
Scoffing » Instances of » Enemies of job
Scorning and mocking » Exemplified » Enemies of job
Sheep » Flocks of » Guarded by dogs
Shepherd » Dogs of
sins of Youth » Special temptations of pleasure-seeking » Prodigality
Dogs » When domesticated » Employed in watching flocks
Job » Loss of friends
Mocking » The tormentors of job mock
Old age » Disrespect for pleasure-seeking » Prodigality
Persecution » Instances of » Of job
Scoffing » Instances of » Enemies of job
Scorning and mocking » Exemplified » Enemies of job
Sheep » Flocks of » Guarded by dogs
Shepherd » Dogs of
sins of Youth » Special temptations of pleasure-seeking » Prodigality
Job 30:2 (show verse)
“Indeed, how could the strength of their hands profit me?
Vigor had perished from them.
Job 30:3 (show verse)
“They are gaunt with want and famine;
They gnaw the dry and barren ground by night in [the gloom of] waste and desolation.
Job 30:4 (show verse)
“They pluck [and eat]
And their food is the root of the broom shrub.
Job 30:5 (show verse)
“They are driven from the community;
They shout after them as after a thief.
Job 30:6 (show verse)
“They must dwell on the slopes of
And in holes in the ground and in rocks.
Job 30:7 (show verse)
“Among the bushes they cry out [like wild animals];
Beneath the prickly scrub they gather and huddle together.
Job 30:8 (show verse)
“They are the sons of [worthless and nameless] fools,
They have been driven out of the land.
Job 30:9 (show verse)
“And now I have become [the subject of] their taunting;
Yes, I am a
Job 30:10 (show verse)
“They hate me, they stand aloof from me,
And do not refrain from spitting in my face.
Job 30:11 (show verse)
“For God has loosed His bowstring [attacking me] and [He has] afflicted and humbled me;
They have cast off the bridle [of restraint] before me.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:12 (show verse)
“On my right the [rabble] brood rises;
They push my feet away, and they build up their ways of destruction against me [like an advancing army].
Job 30:13 (show verse)
“They break up and clutter my path [upsetting my plans],
They profit from my destruction;
No one restrains them.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:14 (show verse)
“As through a wide breach they come,
Amid the crash [of falling walls] they roll on [over me].
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:15 (show verse)
“Terrors are turned upon me;
They chase away my honor and reputation like the wind,
And my prosperity has passed away like a cloud.
Job 30:16 (show verse)
“And now my soul is poured out within me;
The days of affliction have seized me.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:17 (show verse)
“My bones are pierced [with aching] in the night season,
And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
Job 30:18 (show verse)
“By the great force [of my disease] my garment (skin) is disfigured and blemished;
It binds about me [choking me] like the collar of my coat.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:19 (show verse)
“God has cast me into the mire [a swampland of crisis],
And I have become [worthless] like dust and ashes.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:20 (show verse)
“I cry to You for help, [Lord,] but You do not answer me;
I stand up, but You [only] gaze [indifferently] at me.
Job 30:21 (show verse)
“You have become harsh and cruel to me;
With the might of Your hand You [keep me alive only to] persecute me.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:22 (show verse)
“You lift me up on the wind and cause me to ride [upon it];
And You toss me about in the tempest and dissolve me in the storm.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:23 (show verse)
“For I know that You will bring me to death
And to the house of meeting [appointed] for all the living.
Job 30:24 (show verse)
“However, does not one falling in a heap of ruins stretch out his hand?
Or in his disaster [will he not] therefore cry out for help?
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:25 (show verse)
“Did I not weep for one whose life was hard and filled with trouble?
Was not my heart grieved for the needy?
Job 30:26 (show verse)
“When I expected good, then came evil [to me];
And when I waited for light, then came darkness.
No Themes for this verse.
Job 30:27 (show verse)
“I am seething within and my heart is troubled and cannot rest;
Days of affliction come to meet me.
Job 30:28 (show verse)
“I go about mourning without comfort [my skin blackened by disease, not by the heat of the sun];
I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.
Job 30:29 (show verse)
“I am a brother to [howling] jackals,
And a companion to ostriches [which scream dismally].
Job 30:30 (show verse)
“My skin falls from me in blackened flakes,
And my bones are burned with fever.
Job 30:31 (show verse)
“Therefore my lyre (harp) is used for [the sound of] mourning,
And my flute for the [sound of the] voices of those who weep.