New International Reader's Version

Job 30:4-11 New International Reader's Version (NIRV)

4. Among the bushes they gathered salty plants. They ate the roots of desert trees.

5. They were driven away from society. They were shouted at as if they were robbers.

6. They were forced to live in dry stream beds. They had to stay among rocks and in holes in the ground.

7. Like donkeys they cried out among the bushes. There they crowded together and hid.

8. They were so foolish that no one respected them. They were driven out of the land.

9. "Now their children laugh at me. They make fun of me with their songs.

10. They hate me. They stay away from me. They even dare to spit in my face.

11. God has made my body weak. It's like a tent that has fallen down. So those children do what they want to in front of me.