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With great force he takes a grip of my clothing, pulling me by the neck of my coat.

Job 30

For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.

The lines of his men of war put themselves in order, and make high their ways of destruction against me:

I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.

For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.

My glory will be ever new, and my bow will be readily bent in my hand.

Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.

My feelings are strongly moved, and give me no rest; days of trouble have overtaken me.

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

I was laughing at them when they had no hope, and the light of my face was never clouded by their fear.

They make noises like asses among the brushwood; they get together under the thorns.

The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.

Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

I took my place as a chief, guiding them on their way, and I was as a king among his army. ...

The rulers kept quiet, and put their hands on their mouths;

The blessing of him who was near to destruction came on me, and I put a song of joy into the widow's heart.

I was eyes to the blind, and feet to him who had no power of walking.

I put on righteousness as my clothing, and was full of it; right decisions were to me a robe and a head-dress.

And Job again took up the word and said,

For I was a saviour to the poor when he was crying for help, to the child with no father, and to him who had no supporter.

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

I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.

While the Ruler of all was still with me, and my children were round me;

Then I said, I will come to my end with my children round me, my days will be as the sand in number;

When I went out of my door to go up to the town, and took my seat in the public place,

The chiefs kept back their words, and their tongues were joined to the roofs of their mouths.

For when it came to their ears, men said that I was truly happy; and when their eyes saw, they gave witness to me;

By me the great teeth of the evil-doer were broken, and I made him give up what he had violently taken away.

When my steps were washed with milk, and rivers of oil were flowing out of the rock for me.