Job 30:1

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Job’s Present Misery“But now they mock me, those who are younger than I, whose fathers I disdained too much to put with my sheep dogs.

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  • Job 12:4 : 4 I am a laughingstock to my friends, I, who called on God and whom he answered– a righteous and blameless man is a laughingstock!
  • Job 19:13-19 : 13 Job’s Forsaken State“He has put my relatives far from me; my acquaintances only turn away from me. 14 My kinsmen have failed me; my friends have forgotten me. 15 My guests and my servant girls consider me a stranger; I am a foreigner in their eyes. 16 I summon my servant, but he does not respond, even though I implore him with my own mouth. 17 My breath is repulsive to my wife; I am loathsome to my brothers. 18 Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me. 19 All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.
  • Job 29:8-9 : 8 the young men would see me and step aside, and the old men would get up and remain standing; 9 the chief men refrained from talking and covered their mouths with their hands; 10 the voices of the nobles fell silent, and their tongues stuck to the roof of their mouths.
  • Ps 35:15-16 : 15 But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest. 16 When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly, and tried to bite me.
  • Ps 69:12 : 12 Those who sit at the city gate gossip about me; drunkards mock me in their songs.
  • Isa 3:5 : 5 The people will treat each other harshly; men will oppose each other; neighbors will fight. Youths will proudly defy the elderly and riffraff will challenge those who were once respected.
  • Mark 14:65 : 65 Then some began to spit on him, and to blindfold him, and to strike him with their fists, saying,“Prophesy!” The guards also took him and beat him.
  • Mark 15:17-20 : 17 They put a purple cloak on him and after braiding a crown of thorns, they put it on him. 18 They began to salute him:“Hail, king of the Jews!” 19 Again and again they struck him on the head with a staff and spit on him. Then they knelt down and paid homage to him. 20 When they had finished mocking him, they stripped him of the purple cloak and put his own clothes back on him. Then they led him away to crucify him.
  • Luke 23:14 : 14 and said to them,“You brought me this man as one who was misleading the people. When I examined him before you, I did not find this man guilty of anything you accused him of doing.
  • Luke 23:18 : 18 But they all shouted out together,“Take this man away! Release Barabbas for us!”
  • Luke 23:35 : 35 The people also stood there watching, but the leaders ridiculed him, saying,“He saved others. Let him save himself if he is the Christ of God, his chosen one!”
  • Luke 23:39 : 39 One of the criminals who was hanging there railed at him, saying,“Aren’t you the Christ? Save yourself and us!”
  • Acts 17:5 : 5 But the Jews became jealous, and gathering together some worthless men from the rabble in the marketplace, they formed a mob and set the city in an uproar. They attacked Jason’s house, trying to find Paul and Silas to bring them out to the assembly.
  • Titus 1:12 : 12 A certain one of them, in fact, one of their own prophets, said,“Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.”
  • 2 Kgs 2:23 : 23 He went up from there to Bethel. As he was traveling up the road, some young boys came out of the city and made fun of him, saying,“Go on up, baldy! Go on up, baldy!”

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  • Job 30:2
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    2Moreover, the strength of their hands– what use was it to me? Men whose strength had perished;

  • Job 19:18-19
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    18Even youngsters have scorned me; when I get up, they scoff at me.

    19All my closest friends detest me; and those whom I love have turned against me.

  • Job 15:10
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    10The gray-haired and the aged are on our side, men far older than your father.

  • Job 30:7-13
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    7They brayed like animals among the bushes and were huddled together under the nettles.

    8Sons of senseless and nameless people, they were driven out of the land with whips.

    9Job’s Indignities“And now I have become their taunt song; I have become a byword among them.

    10They detest me and maintain their distance; they do not hesitate to spit in my face.

    11Because God has untied my tent cord and afflicted me, people throw off all restraint in my presence.

    12On my right the young rabble rise up; they drive me from place to place, and build up siege ramps against me.

    13They destroy my path; they succeed in destroying me without anyone assisting them.

  • Job 29:8
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    8the young men would see me and step aside, and the old men would get up and remain standing;

  • Ps 35:15-16
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    15But when I stumbled, they rejoiced and gathered together; they gathered together to ambush me. They tore at me without stopping to rest.

    16When I tripped, they taunted me relentlessly, and tried to bite me.

  • Prov 30:31
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    31a strutting rooster, a male goat, and a king with his army around him.

  • Ps 31:11
    71%

    11Because of all my enemies, people disdain me; my neighbors are appalled by my suffering– those who know me are horrified by my condition; those who see me in the street run away from me.

  • Job 17:2
    71%

    2Surely mockery is with me; my eyes must dwell on their hostility.

  • Lam 3:14
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    14I have become the laughingstock of all people, their mocking song all day long.

  • Ps 22:16
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    16Yes, wild dogs surround me– a gang of evil men crowd around me; like a lion they pin my hands and feet.

  • Job 16:10
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    10People have opened their mouths against me, they have struck my cheek in scorn; they unite together against me.

  • Ps 73:15
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    15If I had publicized these thoughts, I would have betrayed your people.

  • Prov 17:6
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    6Grandchildren are like a crown to the elderly, and the glory of children is their parents.

  • Job 31:20-21
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    20whose heart did not bless me as he warmed himself with the fleece of my sheep,

    21if I have raised my hand to vote against the orphan, when I saw my support in the court,

  • Job 17:6
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    6He has made me a byword to people, I am the one in whose face they spit.

  • Ps 22:6-7
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    6But I am a worm, not a man; people insult me and despise me.

    7All who see me taunt me; they mock me and shake their heads.

  • Job 16:7-8
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    7Surely now he has worn me out, you have devastated my entire household.

    8You have seized me, and it has become a witness; my leanness has risen up against me and testifies against me.

  • Ps 119:51
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    51Arrogant people do nothing but scoff at me. Yet I do not turn aside from your law.

  • Prov 1:30
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    30they did not comply with my advice, they spurned all my rebuke.

  • Ps 71:9
    69%

    9Do not reject me in my old age! When my strength fails, do not abandon me!

  • Jer 3:24
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    24From earliest times our worship of that shameful god, Baal, has taken away all that our ancestors worked for. It has taken away our flocks and our herds, and even our sons and daughters.

  • Prov 30:17
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    17The eye that mocks at a father and despises obeying a mother– the ravens of the valley will peck it out and the young vultures will eat it.

  • Isa 3:5
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    5The people will treat each other harshly; men will oppose each other; neighbors will fight. Youths will proudly defy the elderly and riffraff will challenge those who were once respected.

  • Job 12:3
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    3I also have understanding as well as you; I am not inferior to you. Who does not know such things as these?

  • Job 19:3
    69%

    3These ten times you have been reproaching me; you are not ashamed to attack me!

  • Gen 31:38
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    38“I have been with you for the past twenty years. Your ewes and female goats have not miscarried, nor have I eaten rams from your flocks.

  • Job 18:3
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    3Why should we be regarded as beasts, and considered stupid in your sight?

  • Ps 22:13
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    13They open their mouths to devour me like a roaring lion that rips its prey.

  • Prov 1:26
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    26so I myself will laugh when disaster strikes you, I will mock when what you dread comes,

  • Hab 1:10
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    10They mock kings and laugh at rulers. They laugh at every fortified city; they build siege ramps and capture them.

  • Job 31:13
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    13“If I have disregarded the right of my male servants or my female servants when they disputed with me,

  • Ps 17:11
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    11They attack me, now they surround me; they intend to throw me to the ground.

  • Lam 3:4
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    4ב(Bet) He has made my mortal skin waste away; he has broken my bones.

  • Job 16:20
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    20My intercessor is my friend as my eyes pour out tears to God;

  • Ezek 34:19
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    19As for my sheep, they must eat what you trampled with your feet, and drink what you have muddied with your feet!

  • Job 29:24
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    24If I smiled at them, they hardly believed it; and they did not cause the light of my face to darken.

  • Lam 3:11
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    11He has obstructed my paths and torn me to pieces; he has made me desolate.

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    6Elihu Claims Wisdom So Elihu son of Barakel the Buzite spoke up:“I am young, but you are elderly; that is why I was fearful, and afraid to explain to you what I know.