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New King James Version (NKJV)

Job 29
²³ They waited for me as for the rain, And they opened their mouth wide as for the spring rain.
²⁴ If I mocked at them, they did not believe it, And the light of my countenance they did not cast down.
²⁵ I chose the way for them, and sat as chief; So I dwelt as a king in the army, As one who comforts mourners.
Job 30
¹ "But now they mock at me, men younger than I, Whose fathers I disdained to put with the dogs of my flock.
² Indeed, what profit is the strength of their hands to me? Their vigor has perished.
³ They are gaunt from want and famine, Fleeing late to the wilderness, desolate and waste,
⁴ Who pluck mallow by the bushes, And broom tree roots for their food.
⁵ They were driven out from among men, They shouted at them as at a thief.
⁶ They had to live in the clefts of the valleys, In caves of the earth and the rocks.
⁷ Among the bushes they brayed, Under the nettles they nestled.
⁸ They were sons of fools, Yes, sons of vile men; They were scourged from the land.