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Wells's History Presidential Inaugurals ----- All Fiction ----- Shelf of Fiction Ghost Stories Short Stories Shaw, G.B. Stein, G. Stevenson, R.L. Wells, H.G. Nonfiction > The Bible > Harvard Classics > The Book of Job   PREVIOUS NEXT   CONTENTS · BOOK CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD    The Book of Job. The Harvard Classics.  1909–14.   XXX     [1]     BUT now they that are younger than I have me in derision, Whose fathers I disdained to set with the dogs of my flock. [2]   Yea, the strength of their hands, whereto should it profit me? Men in whom ripe 1 age is perished. [3]   They are gaunt with want and famine; They 2 gnaw the dry ground, in 3 the gloom of wasteness and desolation. [4]   They pluck salt-wort by the bushes; And the roots of the broom are their 4 food. [5]   They are driven forth from the midst of men; They cry after them as after a thief; [6]   So that they dwell in frightful valleys, In holes of the earth and of the rocks. [7]   Among the bushes they bray; Under the nettles 5 they are 6 gathered together. [8]   They are children of fools, yea, children of base 7 men; They were 8 scourged out of the land.   [9]   And now I am become their song, Yea, I am a byword unto them. [10]   They abhor me, they stand aloof from me, And spare not to spit in 9 my face. [11]   For he hath loosed his 10 cord, and afflicted me; And they have cast off the bridle before me. [12]   Upon my right hand rise the rabble; 11 They thrust aside my feet, And they cast up against me their ways of destruction. [13]   They mar 12 my path, They set forward my calamity, Even men that have no helper. [14]   As 13 through a wide breach they come: In the midst of the ruin they roll themselves upon me. [15]   Terrors are turned upon me; They 14 chase mine 15 honor as the wind; And my welfare is passed away as a cloud.   [16]   And now, my soul is poured out within 16 me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me. [17]   In the night season my bones are pierced 17 in 18 me, And the 19 pains that gnaw me take no rest. [18]   By God’s great force is my garment disfigured; It bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. [19]   He hath cast me into the mire, And I am become like dust and ashes. [20]   I cry unto thee, and thou dost not answer me: I stand up, and thou gazest at me. [21]   Thou art turned to be cruel to me; With the might of thy hand thou persecutest me. [22]   Thou liftest me up to the wind, thou causest me to ride upon it; And thou dissolvest me in the storm. [23]   For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, And to the 20 house appointed for all living.   [24]   Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help? [25]   Howbeit doth not one stretch out the hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore! [26]   Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy? [27]   When I looked for good, then evil came; And when I waited for light, there came darkness. [28]   My heart is troubled, and resteth not; Days of affliction are come upon me. [29]   I go mourning 21 without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help. [30]   I am a brother to jackals, And a companion to ostriches. [31]   My skin is black, and falleth from me, And my bones are burned with heat. [32]   Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.   Note 1. Or, vigor. [back] Note 2. Or, They flee into the wilderness, into &c. [back] Note 3. Or, which yesternight was.Or, on the eve of. [back] Note 4. Or, to warm them. [back] Note 5. Or, wild vetches. [back] Note 6. Or, stretch themselves. [back] Note 7. Heb. men of no name. [back] Note 8. Or, are outcasts from the land. [back] Note 9. Or, at the sight of me. [back] Note 10. According to another reading, my cord (or, bowstring). [back] Note 11. Or, brood. [back] Note 12. Or, break up. [back] Note 13. Or, As a wide breaking in of waters. [back] Note 14. Or, Thou chasest. [back] Note 15. Or, my nobility. [back] Note 16. Heb. upon. [back] Note 17. Or, corroded and drop away from me. [back] Note 18. Heb. from off. [back] Note 19. Or, my sinews take &c. [back] Note 20. Or, the house of meeting for &c. [back] Note 21. Or, blackened, but not by the sun. [back]   CONTENTS · BOOK CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD   PREVIOUS NEXT     Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore. Welcome · Press · Advertising · Linking · Terms of Use · © 2008 Bartleby.com