30:7. They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted it delightful to be under the briers. 30:8. The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth. 30:9. Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword. 30:10. They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face. 30:11. For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath put a bridle into my mouth. 30:12. At the right hand of my rising, my calamities forthwith arose: they have overthrown my feet, and have overwhelmed me with their paths as with waves. 30:13. They have destroyed my ways, they have lain in wait against me, and they have prevailed, and there was none to help. 30:14. They have rushed in upon me, as when a wall is broken, and a gate opened, and have rolled themselves down to my miseries. 30:15. I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud. 30:16. And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me. 30:17. In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep. 30:18. With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat. 30:19. I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes. 30:20. I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me. 30:21. Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me. 30:22. Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me. 30:23. I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth. 30:24. But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save. 30:25. I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor. 30:26. I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out. 30:27. My inner parts have boiled without any rest, the days of affliction have prevented me. 30:28. I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd. 30:29. I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches. Brother of dragons, etc... Imitating these creatures in their lamentable noise. 30:30. My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat. 30:31. My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep. Job Chapter 31 Job, to defend himself from the unjust judgments of his friends, gives a sincere account of his own virtues. 31:1. I made a covenant with my eyes, that I would not so much as think upon a virgin. 31:2. For what part should God from above have in me, and what inheritance the Almighty from on high? 31:3. Is not destruction to the wicked, and aversion to them that work iniquity?