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Job Chapter 30

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In this chapter the friends of Job bring him gifts and promises to relieve his suffering, while his enemies boast that he will die. Yet the chapter ends with Job still trusting God, showing his steadfast faith despite the pressure of both sides.

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(1) But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock.
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Job 19:13Job 19:14Job 19:15Job 19:16Job 19:17Job 19:18Job 19:19Job 29:8Job 29:9Job 29:10II Kings 2:23Isaiah 3:5

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Ezekiel 34:8I Samuel 12:3Philippians 3:19Ezekiel 34:10Zechariah 11:7

(2) Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?
(3) For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste.
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Job 24:13Job 24:14Job 24:15Job 24:16Job 24:5Hebrews 11:38

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Ezekiel 6:6Ezekiel 29:12Ezekiel 6:14Ezekiel 16:55Jeremiah 12:11Ezekiel 19:7

(4) Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat.
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II Kings 4:38II Kings 4:39Amos 7:14Luke 15:16

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II Kings 16:15

(5) They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)
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Genesis 4:12Genesis 4:13Genesis 4:14Psalms 109:10Daniel 4:25Daniel 4:32Daniel 4:33

(6) To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks.
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Judges 6:2I Samuel 22:1I Samuel 22:2Isaiah 2:19Revelation 6:15

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Isaiah 57:5

(7) Among the bushes they brayed; under the nettles they were gathered together.
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Job 6:5Job 11:12Genesis 16:12

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Exodus 16:18Numbers 11:32

(8) They were children of fools, yea, children of base men: they were viler than the earth.
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II Kings 8:18II Kings 8:27II Chronicles 22:3Psalms 49:10Psalms 49:11Psalms 49:12Psalms 49:13Jeremiah 7:18Mark 6:24Proverbs 1:7Proverbs 1:22Proverbs 16:22

(9) And now am I their song, yea, I am their byword.
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Job 17:6Psalms 35:15Psalms 35:16Psalms 44:14Psalms 69:12Lamentations 3:14Lamentations 3:63

(10) They abhor me, they flee far from me, and spare not to spit in my face.
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Job 19:19Job 42:6Psalms 88:8Zechariah 11:8Job 19:13Job 19:14Proverbs 19:7Matthew 26:56Numbers 12:14Deuteronomy 25:9Isaiah 50:6Matthew 26:67

(11) Because he hath loosed my cord, and afflicted me, they have also let loose the bridle before me.
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Job 12:18Job 12:21II Samuel 16:5II Samuel 16:6II Samuel 16:7II Samuel 16:8Psalms 35:21Matthew 26:67Matthew 26:68Matthew 27:39Matthew 27:40Matthew 27:41

(12) Upon my right hand rise the youth; they push away my feet, and they raise up against me the ways of their destruction.
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Job 19:18Isaiah 3:5Job 19:12

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Ecclesiastes 11:9Genesis 19:2Ezekiel 1:7Luke 7:38

(13) They mar my path, they set forward my calamity, they have no helper.
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Psalms 69:26Zechariah 1:15

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Obadiah 1:13

(14) They came upon me as a wide breaking in of waters: in the desolation they rolled themselves upon me.
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Job 22:16Psalms 18:4Psalms 69:14Psalms 69:15Isaiah 8:7Isaiah 8:8

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Genesis 1:6Joshua 3:13Ezekiel 47:4

(15) Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.
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Job 6:4Job 7:14Job 9:27Job 9:28Job 10:16Psalms 88:15Isaiah 44:22Hosea 6:4Hosea 13:3

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I Kings 19:11Numbers 9:21

(16) And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
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Psalms 22:14Psalms 42:4Isaiah 53:12Psalms 40:12

(17) My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
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Job 33:19Job 33:20Job 33:21Psalms 6:2Psalms 6:3Psalms 6:4Psalms 6:5Psalms 6:6Psalms 38:2Psalms 38:3Psalms 38:4Psalms 38:5

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Jeremiah 8:1Jeremiah 33:20II Samuel 21:13II Kings 23:18

(18) By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
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Job 2:7Job 7:5Job 19:20Psalms 38:5Isaiah 1:5Isaiah 1:6

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Leviticus 13:47

(19) He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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Job 9:31Psalms 69:1Psalms 69:2Jeremiah 38:6Job 2:8Job 42:6Genesis 18:27

(20) I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.
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Job 19:7Job 27:9Psalms 22:2Psalms 80:4Psalms 80:5Lamentations 3:8Lamentations 3:44Matthew 15:23

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Nahum 2:8Romans 14:10

(21) Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.
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Job 7:20Job 7:21Job 10:14Job 10:15Job 10:16Job 10:17Job 13:25Job 13:26Job 13:27Job 13:28Job 16:9Job 16:10

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Isaiah 28:7Haggai 2:4

(22) Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.
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Job 21:18Psalms 1:4Isaiah 17:13Jeremiah 4:11Jeremiah 4:12Ezekiel 5:2Hosea 4:19Hosea 13:3Psalms 18:10Psalms 104:3

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I Kings 19:11

(23) For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.
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Job 14:5Job 21:33Genesis 3:19II Samuel 14:14Ecclesiastes 8:8Ecclesiastes 9:5Ecclesiastes 12:5Ecclesiastes 12:6Ecclesiastes 12:7Hebrews 9:27

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II Kings 8:12Exodus 15:26

(24) Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
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Judges 5:31Psalms 35:25Matthew 27:39Matthew 27:40Matthew 27:41Matthew 27:42Matthew 27:43Matthew 27:44

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Isaiah 15:5Jeremiah 4:30I Corinthians 7:30II Corinthians 7:8Hosea 13:14

(25) Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
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Psalms 35:13Psalms 35:14Jeremiah 13:17Jeremiah 18:20Luke 19:41John 11:35Romans 12:15Job 31:16Job 31:17Job 31:18Job 31:19Job 31:20

(26) When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
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Job 3:25Job 3:26Job 29:18Jeremiah 8:15Jeremiah 14:19Jeremiah 15:18Micah 1:12Job 18:6Job 18:18Job 23:17Psalms 97:11Isaiah 50:10

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Job 10:22Isaiah 5:20Matthew 6:23John 12:35Isaiah 30:26Genesis 1:4

(27) My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
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Psalms 22:4Jeremiah 4:19Jeremiah 31:20Lamentations 1:20Lamentations 2:11

(28) I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
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Psalms 38:6Psalms 42:9Psalms 43:2Isaiah 53:3Isaiah 53:4Lamentations 3:1Lamentations 3:2Lamentations 3:3

(29) I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
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Job 17:14Psalms 102:6Isaiah 13:21Isaiah 13:22Isaiah 38:14Micah 1:8Malachi 1:3

(30) My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
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Psalms 119:83Lamentations 3:4Lamentations 4:8Lamentations 5:10Psalms 102:3

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Jeremiah 8:1II Samuel 21:13II Kings 23:18

(31) My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
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Psalms 137:1Psalms 137:2Psalms 137:3Psalms 137:4Ecclesiastes 3:4Isaiah 21:4Isaiah 22:12Isaiah 24:7Isaiah 24:8Isaiah 24:9Lamentations 5:15Daniel 6:18

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James 4:9

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