Verse 6
Job 30:6
Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition
6
They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel.
Original Language Text
hebrew
בַּ/עֲר֣וּץ נְחָלִ֣ים לִ/שְׁכֹּ֑ן חֹרֵ֖י עָפָ֣ר וְ/כֵפִֽים
English Translation
In the rushing of rivers to dwell among the rocky cliffs and crevices.
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Chapter 30 Context
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But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:
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The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.
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Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.
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And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.
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Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to th...
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They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel.
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They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted it delightful to be under the briers...
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The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.
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Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.
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They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face.
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For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath put a bridle into my mouth.
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At the right hand of my rising, my calamities forthwith arose: they have overthrown my feet, and hav...
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They have destroyed my ways, they have lain in wait against me, and they have prevailed, and there w...
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They have rushed in upon me, as when a wall is broken, and a gate opened, and have rolled themselves...
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I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed awa...
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And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me.
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In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.
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With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar...
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I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.
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I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.
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Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.
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Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me.
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I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.
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But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wi...
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I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.
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I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.
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My inner parts have boiled without any rest, the days of affliction have prevented me.
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I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd.
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I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.
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My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.
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My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.
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