### Douay Rheims Bible

Job 29

## The Book of Job

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| # Chapter 30
#### 1 | But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:
#### 2 | The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.
#### 3 | Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.
#### 4 | And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.
#### 5 | Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.
#### 6 | They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel.
#### 7 | They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted it delightful to be under the briers.
#### 8 | The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.
#### 9 | Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.
#### 10 | They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face.
#### 11 | For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath put a bridle into my mouth.
#### 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.
#### 13 | They have destroyed my ways, they have lain in wait against me, and they have prevailed, and there was none to help.
#### 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.
#### 15 | I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.
#### 16 | And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me.
#### 17 | In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.
#### 18 | With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat.
#### 19 | I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.
#### 20 | I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.
#### 21 | Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.
#### 22 | Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me.
#### 23 | I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.
#### 24 | But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.
#### 25 | I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.
#### 26 | I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.
#### 27 | My inner parts have boiled without any rest, the days of affliction have prevented me.
#### 28 | I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd.
#### 29 | I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.
#### 30 | My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.
#### 31 | My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.

Job 31

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