Job 30:1-10
1
“But now they mock me,
men younger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
to put with my sheep dogs.
2
Of what use was the strength of their hands to me,
since their vigor had gone from them?
3
Haggard from want and hunger,
they roamed the parched land
in desolate wastelands at night.
4
In the brush they gathered salt herbs,
and their food was the root of the broom tree.
5
They were banished from their fellow men,
shouted at as if they were thieves.
6
They were forced to live in the dry stream beds,
among the rocks and in holes in the ground.
7
They brayed among the bushes
and huddled in the undergrowth.
8
A base and nameless brood,
they were driven out of the land.
9
“And now their sons mock me in song;
I have become a byword among them.
10
They detest me and keep their distance;
they do not hesitate to spit in my face.