Job 30:2

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Of what use is the strength of their hands to me? all force is gone from them.

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  • 1 But now those who are younger than I make sport of me; those whose fathers I would not have put with the dogs of my flocks.

  • Job 30:12-13
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    12 The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

    13 They have made waste my roads, with a view to my destruction; his bowmen come round about me;

  • Job 6:11-13
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    11 Have I strength to go on waiting, or have I any end to be looking forward to?

    12 Is my strength the strength of stones, or is my flesh brass?

    13 I have no help in myself, and wisdom is completely gone from me.

  • 9 Do not give me up when I am old; be my help even when my strength is gone.

  • Job 15:10-11
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    10 With us are men who are grey-haired and full of years, much older than your father.

    11 Are the comforts of God not enough for you, and the gentle word which was said to you?

  • 3 They are wasted for need of food, biting the dry earth; their only hope of life is in the waste land.

  • 10 My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • 2 How have you given help to him who has no power! how have you been the salvation of the arm which has no strength!

  • 11 My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

  • 23 He has taken my strength from me in the way; he has made short my days.

  • 18 Even young children have no respect for me; when I get up their backs are turned on me.

  • Job 31:21-22
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    21 If my hand had been lifted up against him who had done no wrong, when I saw that I was supported by the judges;

    22 May my arm be pulled from my body, and be broken from its base.

  • 10 I said, In the quiet of my days I am going down into the underworld: the rest of my years are being taken away from me.

  • 4 My flesh and my skin have been used up by him and my bones broken.

  • Job 16:7-8
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    7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

    8 It has come up as a witness against me, and the wasting of my flesh makes answer to my face.

  • 20 Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

  • 7 Why is life given to the evil-doers? why do they become old and strong in power?

  • 18 Now when I am old and grey-headed, O God, give me not up; till I have made clear your strength to this generation, and your power to all those to come.

  • 30 Even the young men will become feeble and tired, and the best of them will come to the end of his strength;

  • 24 Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?

  • 15 My throat is dry like a broken vessel; my tongue is fixed to the roof of my mouth, and the dust of death is on my lips.

  • 14 I will take my flesh in my teeth, and put my life in my hand.

  • 20 He makes the words of responsible persons without effect, and takes away the good sense of the old;

  • 5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

  • 10 My heart goes out in pain, my strength is wasting away; as for the light of my eyes, it is gone from me.

  • 29 The glory of young men is their strength, and the honour of old men is their grey hairs.

  • 8 The young men saw me, and went away, and the old men got up from their seats;

  • 15 Though I have given training and strength to their arms, they have evil designs against me.

  • 4 For they have no pain; their bodies are fat and strong.

  • 2 If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!

  • 19 ...

  • 1 My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

  • 12 My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

  • 22 For in a short time I will take the journey from which I will not come back.

  • 22 And his soul comes near to the underworld, and his life to the angels of death.

  • 4 As I was in my flowering years, when my tent was covered by the hand of God;

  • 15 Where then is my hope? and who will see my desire?

  • 19 O Lord, my strength and my strong tower, my safe place in the day of trouble, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and say, The heritage of our fathers is nothing but deceit, even false things in which there is no profit.

  • 25 If I was glad because my wealth was great, and because my hand had got together a great store;

  • Job 21:15-16
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    15 What is the Ruler of all, that we may give him worship? and what profit is it to us to make prayer to him?

    16 Truly, is not their well-being in their power? (The purpose of the evil-doers is far from me.)

  • 16 I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.

  • 29 If now you take this one from me, and some evil comes to him, you will make my grey head go down in sorrow to the underworld.

  • 21 You have become cruel to me; the strength of your hand is hard on me.