Job 30:1-12 Job Describes His Current Status in Life“But now they mock me; men who are far younger than I, whose fathers I would have hated to entrust with my own sheep dogs.

ISV⁽ⁱ⁾ ¹ Job Describes His Current Status in Life“But now they mock me; men who are far younger than I, whose fathers I would have hated to entrust with my own sheep dogs. ² Furthermore, what could I have gained from men whose strength is gone? ³ Unproductive due to poverty and hunger, they could only scratch in parched soil, devastated and desolated. ⁴ “They would pluck off herbs from salt marshes to eat; and roots of the broom shrub for food. ⁵ Driven away from human company, they were shouted at as though they were thieves. ⁶ They lived in the most dangerous of ravines, in holes in the ground, and among rocks. ⁷ They bray like donkeys among the bushes and huddle together under the desert weeds. ⁸ Sons of fools and of uncertain reputation, they have been driven from the land by scourging.”
⁹ Job Presents the Actions of the Mockers“Now, I’ve become the object of their mocking melodies; I’m nothing but a fool’s proverb to them! ¹⁰ They abhor me—they keep their distance from me; but they don’t refrain from spitting at the sight of me. ¹¹ But God has loosened his cord and afflicted me; so they’ve cast off all restraints in my presence. ¹² “A wretched crowd ambushes me to my right; they trip my feet; they build up their path of calamity for me.