1But now the younger in time scorn me, whose fathers I would not have set with the dogs of my flock:

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Job 12:4, Job 12:4, Luke 23:35, Psalms 69:12, Psalms 35:15

2The strength of whose hands was to me as nothing, and they were thought unworthy of life itself.

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3Barren with want and hunger, who gnawed in the wilderness, disfigured with calamity and misery.

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Job 24:5, Job 24:5, Hebrews 11:38, Job 24:13, Job 24:16

4And they ate grass, and barks of trees, and the root of junipers was their food.

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Luke 15:16, Luke 15:16, Amos 7:14, 2 Kings 4:38, 2 Kings 4:39

5Who snatched up these things out of the valleys, and when they had found any of them, they ran to them with a cry.

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Daniel 4:25, Daniel 4:25, Psalms 109:10, Genesis 4:12, Genesis 4:14

6They dwelt in the desert places of torrents, and in caves of earth, or upon the gravel.

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Judges 6:2, 1 Samuel 22:1, 1 Samuel 22:2, Judges 6:2, 1 Samuel 22:1

7They pleased themselves among these kind of things, and counted it delightful to be under the briers.

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Job 6:5, Job 11:12, Genesis 16:12, Job 6:5, Job 11:12

8The children of foolish and base men, and not appearing at all upon the earth.

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Proverbs 16:22, Proverbs 16:22, Proverbs 1:22, Jeremiah 7:18, Proverbs 1:7

9Now I am turned into their song, and am become their byword.

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Job 17:6, Lamentations 3:63, Job 17:6, Lamentations 3:63, Lamentations 3:14

10They abhor me, and flee far from me, and are not afraid to spit in my face.

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Isaiah 50:6, Matthew 26:67, Isaiah 50:6, Matthew 26:67, Psalms 88:8

11For he hath opened his quiver, and hath afflicted me, and hath put a bridle into my mouth.

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Job 12:21, Job 12:18, Job 12:21, Job 12:18, James 1:26

12At the right hand of my rising, my calamities forthwith arose: they have overthrown my feet, and have overwhelmed me with their paths as with waves.

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Job 19:12, Job 19:12, Job 19:18, Psalms 140:4, Psalms 140:5

13They have destroyed my ways, they have lain in wait against me, and they have prevailed, and there was none to help.

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Zechariah 1:15, Psalms 69:26, Isaiah 3:12, Zechariah 1:15, Psalms 69:26

14They have rushed in upon me, as when a wall is broken, and a gate opened, and have rolled themselves down to my miseries.

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Job 22:16, Psalms 18:4, Isaiah 8:7, Isaiah 8:8, Psalms 69:14

15I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud.

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Hosea 13:3, Hosea 13:3, Job 6:4, Isaiah 44:22, Job 6:4

16And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me.

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Psalms 22:14, Psalms 42:4, Psalms 22:14, Psalms 42:4, Isaiah 53:12

17In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.

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Psalms 6:2, Psalms 6:6, Job 33:19, Job 33:21, Isaiah 38:13

18With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat.

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Job 2:7, Job 2:7, Job 7:5, Isaiah 1:5, Isaiah 1:6

19I am compared to dirt, and am likened to embers and ashes.

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Job 42:6, Genesis 18:27, Job 9:31, Job 42:6, Genesis 18:27

20I cry to thee, and thou hearest me not: I stand up, and thou dost not regard me.

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Job 19:7, Job 19:7, Job 27:9, Lamentations 3:8, Psalms 80:4

21Thou art changed to be cruel toward me, and in the hardness of thy hand thou art against me.

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Job 10:14, Job 10:17, Job 10:14, Job 10:17, Job 16:9

22Thou hast lifted me up, and set me as it were upon the wind, and thou hast mightily dashed me.

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Job 27:21, Job 27:21, Psalms 104:3, Job 9:17, Psalms 18:10

23I know that thou wilt deliver me to death, where a house is appointed for every one that liveth.

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Ecclesiastes 12:5, Ecclesiastes 12:7, Ecclesiastes 12:5, Ecclesiastes 12:7, Ecclesiastes 9:5

24But yet thou stretchest not forth thy hand to their consumption: and if they shall fall down thou wilt save.

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Matthew 27:39, Matthew 27:44, Job 19:7, Psalms 35:25, Judges 5:31

25I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.

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Romans 12:15, Romans 12:15, Psalms 35:13, Psalms 35:14, Psalms 35:13

26I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.

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Jeremiah 8:15, Jeremiah 8:15, Jeremiah 14:19, Jeremiah 14:19, Job 3:25

27My inner parts have boiled without any rest, the days of affliction have prevented me.

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Lamentations 2:11, Lamentations 2:11, Psalms 22:4, Lamentations 1:20, Jeremiah 31:20

28I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd.

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Psalms 43:2, Psalms 42:9, Psalms 43:2, Psalms 42:9, Psalms 38:6

29I was the brother of dragons, and companion of ostriches.

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Micah 1:8, Micah 1:8, Psalms 102:6, Psalms 102:6, Job 17:14

30My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat.

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Lamentations 4:8, Lamentations 4:8, Psalms 102:3, Psalms 102:3, Psalms 119:83

31My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.

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Lamentations 5:15, Lamentations 5:15, Isaiah 21:4, Isaiah 21:4, Daniel 6:18