Verse
YLT
Young's Literal Translation
KJV
King James Version
And
now ,
laughed
at
me,
Have
the
younger in
days
than I, Whose fathers I have loathed
to set With the dogs of my flock.
But
now they
that
are
younger than I have
me
in
derision
, whose fathers I would
have disdained
to have
set with the dogs of my flock.
Also
--
the power
of their hands ,
why
`is
it'
to
me ?
On
them
hath
old age perished .
Yea,
whereto
might
the strength
of their hands profit
me ,
in
whom
old age was
perished ?
With
want and with
famine gloomy,
Those
fleeing to
a
dry
place,
Formerly
a
desolation
and waste ,
For
want and famine they
were
solitary;
fleeing into
the
wilderness
in
former
time
desolate
and waste .
Those
cropping
mallows near
a
shrub
, And broom-
roots `is'
their food
.
Who
cut
up
mallows by
the
bushes
, and juniper
roots for
their meat
.
From
the
midst
they are
cast
out
, (They shout
against
them as a thief) ,
They were
driven
forth
from
among
men
, (they cried
after
them as after
a thief ;
)
In a
frightful
place
of valleys to
dwell
, Holes
of earth and clefts
.
To
dwell
in the
cliffs
of the
valleys, in
caves
of the
earth ,
and in
the
rocks
.
Among shrubs
they do
groan,
Under nettles they are
gathered together.
Among the
bushes
they brayed;
under the
nettles they were
gathered together.
Sons
of folly
--
even
sons
without
name
, They have
been
smitten
from
the land
.
They
were
children
of fools
, yea,
children
of
base
men:
they were
viler
than
the earth
.
And now ,
their song I
have
been
, And
I am to
them
for
a
byword.
And now am
I
their song, yea,
I am their
byword.
They have
abominated
me, They have
kept
far from me, And from
before
me
have
not spared
to spit.
They abhor
me, they flee
far from me, and spare
not to spit in
my
face
.
Because His
cord
He loosed and afflicteth
me, And
the bridle from
before me ,
They
have
cast
away
.
Because he hath
loosed my
cord,
and afflicted
me, they
have
also
let
loose
the bridle before me.
On
the
right hand doth
a
brood
arise,
My
feet
they have
cast
away, And they raise up against me ,
Their
paths
of calamity
.
Upon
my
right hand rise
the
youth;
they push
away my
feet
, and they raise up against me the
ways
of their
destruction
.
They have
broken
down
my path, By
my calamity they
profit
, `He
hath
no helper. '
They mar
my path, they
set
forward
my calamity, they
have
no helper.
As a wide breach
they
come,
Under
the desolation have
rolled themselves.
They
came
upon
me
as a wide breaking
in
of
waters:
in
the desolation they
rolled themselves upon
me
.
He
hath
turned against
me terrors,
It
pursueth
as the wind mine
abundance,
And as a thick
cloud ,
Hath
my
safety
passed
away
.
Terrors
are
turned upon
me :
they
pursue
my
soul
as the wind :
and my
welfare
passeth
away
as a cloud.
And now ,
in
me
my soul poureth
itself
out ,
Seize
me do
days of affliction.
And now my soul is
poured
out upon
me ;
the
days of affliction have
taken
hold
upon
me
.
At
night
my bone
hath
been
pierced in me ,
And mine
eyelids
do
not
lie
down
.
My bones
are
pierced in me in
the
night
season:
and my
sinews
take
no
rest
.
By the abundance
of power,
Is my clothing
changed ,
As the mouth
of my coat it
doth
gird
me
.
By the great
force
of my
disease
is my garment
changed :
it
bindeth
me
about
as the collar
of my coat.
Casting
me into mire, And I am become like dust and ashes.
He
hath
cast
me into the
mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
I cry unto Thee, And Thou dost not answer
me ,
I have
stood
, and Thou dost
consider
me.
I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear
me :
I stand
up
, and thou regardest
me not
.
Thou art turned
to
be
fierce
to me ,
With the
strength
of
Thy hand ,
Thou oppresest
me.
Thou art become
cruel
to me :
with thy strong
hand thou opposest
thyself
against
me.
Thou dost
lift
me up ,
On
the wind Thou dost
cause
me to ride, And Thou
meltest
--
Thou
levellest
me
.
Thou liftest
me up to
the wind ;
thou causest
me to ride upon
it
, and dissolvest
my
substance
.
For I have
known
To
death
Thou dost
bring me back
, And `
to '
the house appointed for all living.
For I know
that
thou wilt
bring me to
death
, and to the house appointed for all living.
Surely
not
against
the
heap
Doth
He send
forth
the
hand, Though in
its
ruin
they have
safety
.
Howbeit
he will
not
stretch
out
his
hand to
the
grave
, though they cry
in
his
destruction
.
Did not I weep for him whose
day
is
hard
? Grieved
hath
my soul for the needy.
Did not I weep for him that
was
in
trouble
? was
not
my soul grieved
for the poor?
When good
I expected
, then cometh
evil ,
And I wait
for light, and
darkness cometh
.
When I looked
for
good
, then evil came
unto
me:
and when
I waited
for light, there
came
darkness.
My bowels have
boiled, and have
not ceased,
Gone
before
me
have
days of affliction.
My bowels boiled, and rested
not :
the
days of affliction prevented
me
.
Mourning
I have
gone
without the sun ,
I have
risen
, in
an
assembly
I cry
.
I went
mourning
without the sun :
I stood
up
, and
I cried
in
the
congregation
.
A brother I
have
been
to dragons, And a companion to daughters
of
the
ostrich
.
I
am
a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls
.
My skin hath
been
black upon me, And my bone
hath
burned from
heat ,
My skin is
black upon me, and my bones
are
burned with
heat .
And
my harp doth
become
mourning, And my organ the sound
of weeping
.
My harp also
is
turned
to
mourning, and my organ into
the voice
of them
that
weep
.
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