What does Job Chapter 30 say, and which statements belong to its speaker?

Job says younger men now mock him, whose fathers he would not have set with his flock's dogs. He asks what their strength meant to him and says he thought them unworthy of life. In want and hunger they sought wilderness grass, bark and juniper roots, snatching things from valleys and running to each with a cry. They dwelt in torrent beds, caves, gravel and briars. Now Job is their song and byword; they abhor and flee him and are not afraid to spit in his face.

Job speaks of an opened quiver and a bridle put into his mouth, calamities at his right, overturned feet and paths pressing like waves through a broken wall and opened gate. His prosperity passes like a cloud and his soul fades. He describes pierced bones with sorrows, those feeding upon him without sleep, his garment consumed by their multitude and girding him like a collar. He compares himself with dirt, embers and ashes.

In Job’s speech, he cries to God without hearing, says God is cruel and opposes him with a hard hand, lifts him on wind and dashes him, and knows God will deliver him to death, the house of all living. He nevertheless says God does not stretch His hand to consumption and, if they fall, will save. Job recalls weeping for the afflicted and compassion for the poor; expecting good and light, he received evil and darkness. His inner parts boil, days of affliction meet him, and he goes mourning without indignation, crying in the crowd. He is brother to dragons and companion to ostriches, with blackened skin and bones dried by heat; harp and organ turn to mourning and weeping.

The edition separately notes the younger men contrast with the respect formerly given him, and explains dragons and ostriches as a comparison with lamentable noises. No clinical fever diagnosis is supplied.