Job 30 Summary

Job now reports that those younger than he hold him in derision—men whose fathers he would have disdained to set with the dogs of his flock. These base and wicked men are driven forth, fleeing into the wilderness, eating mallows and juniper roots, dwelling in clifts and caves, braying among bushes beneath the nettles. They are children of fools, viler than the earth, and now Job is their song and byword. They abhor him, flee far from him, and spit in his face. Because God has loosed his cord and afflicted him, they have also let loose their bridle before him, pushing away his feet and raising up calamity against him. They mar his path, roll over him like a wide breaking of waters, and pursue his soul as the wind while his welfare passes away as a cloud. Job's bones are pierced at night, his sinews take no rest, and his disease binds him like a collar. He cries to God but is not heard; he stands but is not regarded.