Job 30:12
Hebrew Text— Job 30:12On my right hand rise the rabble. They thrust aside my feet, They cast up against me their ways of destruction.
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His troops come on together, build a siege ramp against me, and encamp around my tent.
He went up from there to Bethel. As he was going up by the way, some youths came out of the city and mocked him, and said to him, “Go up, you baldy! Go up, you baldy!”
“But now those who are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I considered unworthy to put with my sheep dogs.
“ ‘You shall rise up before the gray head and honor the face of the elderly; and you shall fear your God. I am Yahweh.
Moses sent to call Dathan and Abiram, the sons of Eliab; and they said, “We won’t come up!
Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in?
God delivers me to the ungodly, and casts me into the hands of the wicked.
His archers surround me. He splits my kidneys apart, and does not spare. He pours out my bile on the ground.
Even young children despise me. If I arise, they speak against me.
Delicate living is not appropriate for a fool, much less for a servant to have rule over princes.
Ah sinful nation, a people loaded with iniquity, offspring of evildoers, children who deal corruptly! They have forsaken Yahweh. They have despised the Holy One of Israel. They are estranged and backward.
The people will be oppressed, everyone by another, and everyone by his neighbor. The child will behave himself proudly against the old man, and the wicked against the honorable.
The elder and the honorable man is the head, and the prophet who teaches lies is the tail.
The envy also of Ephraim will depart, and those who persecute Judah will be cut off. Ephraim won’t envy Judah, and Judah won’t persecute Ephraim.
I will put it into the hand of those who afflict you, who have said to your soul, ‘Bow down, that we may walk over you;’ and you have laid your back as the ground, like a street to those who walk over.”
But your eyes and your heart are only for your covetousness, for shedding innocent blood, for oppression, and for doing violence.”
In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.
A merchant has dishonest scales in his hand. He loves to defraud.
Listen to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who tell their husbands, “Bring us drinks!”
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”
For I will no more pity the inhabitants of the land,” says Yahweh; “but, behold, I will deliver the men everyone into his neighbor’s hand, and into the hand of his king. They will strike the land, and out of their hand I will not deliver them.”
I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the perjurers, and against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and who deprive the foreigner of justice, and don’t fear me,” says Yahweh of Armies.
Then they spat in his face and beat him with their fists, and some slapped him,
Some began to spit on him, and to cover his face, and to beat him with fists, and to tell him, “Prophesy!” The officers struck him with the palms of their hands.
Having blindfolded him, they struck him on the face and asked him, “Prophesy! Who is the one who struck you?”
doesn’t behave itself inappropriately, doesn’t seek its own way, is not provoked, takes no account of evil;
But you have dishonored the poor man. Don’t the rich oppress you, and personally drag you before the courts?
Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you have kept back by fraud, cry out, and the cries of those who reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Armies.