Gen 24:4-8, Job 30:1-8 | ESV | STEP | but will go to my country and to my kindred , and take a wife for my son Isaac .

Genesis 24:4-8

4 ^abut will go to my country and to my kindred, and take a wife for my son Isaac.” 5 The servant said to him, “Perhaps the woman may not be willing to follow me to this land. Must I then take your son back to the land from which you came?” 6 Abraham said to him, “See to it that you do not take my son back there. 7 The Lord, the God of heaven, ^bwho took me from my father’s house and from the land of my kindred, and who spoke to me and swore to me, ^c‘To your offspring I will give this land,’ ^dhe will send his angel before you, and you shall take a wife for my son from there. 8 But if the woman is not willing to follow you, then ^eyou will be free from this oath of mine; only you must not take my son back there.”

Job 30:1-8

1 “But now they ^flaugh at me,
men who are ^gyounger than I,
whose fathers I would have disdained
to set with the dogs of my flock.
2 What could I gain from the strength of their hands,
^hmen whose ⁱvigor is gone?
3 Through want and hard hunger
they ^jgnaw ^kthe dry ground by night in ^lwaste and desolation;
4 they pick saltwort and the leaves of bushes,
and the roots of the broom tree for their food. ^{▼▼Or warmth}
5 ⁿThey are driven out from human company;
they shout after them as after a thief.
6 In the gullies of the torrents they must dwell,
in holes of the earth and of ^othe rocks.
7 Among the bushes they ^pbray;
under ^qthe nettles they huddle together.
8 A senseless, a nameless brood,
they have been whipped out of the land.