Verse
BSB
Berean Standard Bible
KJV
King James Version
“
But now they mock
me,
men
younger than I am
, whose fathers I would have refused
to entrust
with my
sheep
dogs.
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
.
What
use
to
me
was
the strength of their hands, since
their
vigor
had
left
them
?
Yea,
whereto
might
the strength of their hands profit
me
, in
whom
old
age
was
perished
?
Gaunt
from
poverty
and hunger,
they gnawed
the
dry
land,
and
the desolate wasteland
by
night
.
For
want
and famine
they were
solitary;
fleeing
into
the wilderness
in
former
time
desolate and
waste
.
They
plucked
mallow
among
the shrubs
, and the
roots of
the
broom
tree
were
their food
.
Who
cut
up
mallows
by
the bushes
, and juniper
roots for
their meat
.
They were banished
from among men, shouted
down
like
thieves,
They were driven
forth
from among men, (they
cried
after
them
as
after
a
thief;)
so
that
they
lived
on
the slopes
of the wadis
, among
the rocks
and in holes
in
the ground
.
To
dwell
in
the cliffs
of the valleys
, in
caves
of
the earth,
and in the rocks
.
They
cried
out
among the shrubs
and
huddled
beneath
the nettles.
Among the bushes
they
brayed;
under
the nettles they
were
gathered
together
.
A
senseless
and
nameless
brood
, they were driven
off
the land
.
They
were
children
of
fools
, yea,
children
of
base
men:
they were viler
than
the earth
.
And now they
mock
me
in
song ;
I have
become
a
byword among
them
.
And now am
I
their
song ,
yea,
I am
their
byword.
They abhor me and
keep
far from me ;
they
do
not hesitate
to spit in my face.
They abhor me ,
they
flee
far from me ,
and
spare
not to spit in my face.
Because God
has
unstrung
my bow
and afflicted me, they have cast
off
restraint
in
my
presence
.
Because he
hath
loosed
my cord,
and afflicted me, they have also
let
loose
the
bridle
before
me
.
The
rabble
arises
at
my right; they lay
snares
for
my feet and build
siege
ramps
against 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 tear
up
my path ;
they profit
from
my destruction
, with
no one
to
restrain
them
.
They mar
my path ,
they set
forward
my calamity
, they
have
no helper
.
They advance
as through
a wide breach;
through
the ruins
they keep
rolling
in
.
They came
upon
me
as a wide breaking
in
of
waters:
in
the desolation
they rolled
themselves
upon
me
.
Terrors are turned loose
against
me ;
they drive
away
my dignity
as by
the wind ,
and my prosperity
has
passed
like
a cloud.
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 within
me; days of affliction grip
me.
And now my soul is poured out upon
me; the
days of affliction have
taken
hold
upon
me.
Night
pierces
my bones ,
and my gnawing
pains
never
rest.
My bones are
pierced
in
me
in
the
night
season:
and my sinews
take
no
rest.
With
great force He
grasps
my garment ;
He
seizes
me by
the collar of my tunic
.
By
the
great force of
my disease
is
my
garment changed:
it
bindeth
me about
as
the collar of my coat
.
He throws
me into the mud
, and I have
become like dust and ashes.
He hath
cast
me into the mire
, and I am
become like dust and ashes.
I cry out
to
You
for
help
, but
You
do
not answer;
when
I stand up, You
merely
look
at
me.
I cry unto
thee
, and
thou
dost
not hear
me:
I stand up, and
thou
regardest
me not
.
You
have
ruthlessly
turned
on
me;
You
oppose
me with Your
strong hand.
Thou
art
become
cruel
to
me :
with thy
strong hand thou
opposest
thyself
against
me
.
You
snatch
me up into
the wind and
drive
me
before
it
; You
toss
me about
in
the
storm
.
Thou
liftest
me up to
the wind; thou
causest
me to
ride
upon
it,
and
dissolvest
my
substance
.
Yes,
I know that You
will
bring me down
to death, to the place
appointed for all the
living.
For
I know that thou
wilt
bring me to death, and
to the house
appointed for all living.
Yet
no
one
stretches
out his hand to a
ruined
man
when
he
cries
for
help
in his distress
.
Howbeit
he
will
not
stretch
out his hand to the
grave,
though
they
cry
in his destruction
.
Have
I
not wept
for those
in trouble? Has
my soul not
grieved for the needy
?
Did
not I
weep
for him
that
was
in trouble? was
not
my soul grieved for the poor
?
But
when I hoped
for good, evil came ;
when I looked
for light, darkness fell
.
When I looked
for good, then
evil came unto
me:
and
when I waited
for light, there
came
darkness.
I
am
churning
within
and cannot
rest;
days of affliction confront
me.
My
bowels
boiled,
and rested
not:
the
days of affliction prevented
me.
I go
about
blackened,
but
not
by
the sun .
I stand
up in the assembly
and
cry
for
help
.
I went
mourning
without
the sun :
I stood
up ,
and
I
cried
in the congregation
.
I have
become
a brother of
jackals
, a companion of
ostriches
.
I am
a brother to
dragons
, and
a companion to
owls
.
My skin grows
black and
peels
, and my bones burn
with fever
.
My skin is
black upon
me
, and my bones are
burned
with heat
.
My harp is tuned
to mourning and my flute
to
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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