### Noah Webster Bible

Job 29

## The Book of Job

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| But now they that are younger than I, have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to set with the dogs of my flock.
| Yes, to what might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age had perished?
| For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
| Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their food.
| They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them, as after a thief;)
| To dwell in the clefts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
| Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were collected.
| They were children of fools, yes, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
| And now I am their song, yes, I am their by-word.
| They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
| Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
| Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
| They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
| They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
| Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
| And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
| My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
| By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
| He hath cast me into the mire, and I have become like dust and ashes.
| I cry to thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
| Thou hast become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
| Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
| For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
| Yet he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
| Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
| When I looked for good, then evil came: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
| My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction came upon me.
| I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
| I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
| My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
| My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

Job 31

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