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Job 30:21 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me. "
Job 30:21
Verse in Context
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19 He has cast me into the mire. I have become like dust and ashes.
20 I cry to you, and you do not answer me. I stand up, and you gaze at me.
21 You have turned to be cruel to me. With the might of your hand you persecute me.
22 You lift me up to the wind, and drive me with it. You dissolve me in the storm.
23 For I know that you will bring me to death, to the house appointed for all living.
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Job 30:1
"“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs."
Job 30:2
"Of what use is the strength of their hands to me, men in whom ripe age has perished?"
Job 30:3
"They are gaunt from lack and famine. They gnaw the dry ground, in the gloom of waste and desolation."
Job 30:4
"They pluck salt herbs by the bushes. The roots of the broom tree are their food."
Job 30:5
"They are driven out from among men. They cry after them as after a thief,"
Job 30:6
"so that they live in frightful valleys, and in holes of the earth and of the rocks."
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