English / ERV
Job 30
Easy-to-Read Version, 2006
- 1“But now men younger than I make fun of me— men whose fathers were too worthless to put with my sheep dogs.
- 2Their fathers are still too weak to be of any use to me. All their strength is gone.
- 3They are starving with nothing to eat, so they chew on the dry, ruined land.
- 4They pull up salt plants in the desert and eat the roots from the broom tree.
- 5They are forced away from other people, who shout at them as if they were thieves.
- 6They must live in the dry riverbeds, hillside caves, and holes in the ground.
- 7They howl in the bushes and huddle together under thornbushes.
- 8They are a bunch of worthless people without names, who were forced to leave their country.
- 9“Now their sons sing songs to make fun of me. My name has become a bad word to them.
- 10They hate me and stay far away from me, except when they come to spit in my face!
- 11God has taken the string from my bow and made me weak, so they feel free to do whatever they want to me.
- 12They attack me on my right side. They knock my feet out from under me. They build ramps to attack and destroy me like a city.
- 13They guard the road so that I cannot escape. They succeed in destroying me, without help from anyone.
- 14They break a hole in the wall and come rushing through it, and the crashing rocks fall on me.
- 15I am shaking with fear. They chased my honor away like dust in the wind. My safety disappears like a cloud.