Job 30:31
Therefore my harp has [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
In Context
30My skin is black, [and falls] from me. And my bones are burned with heat.
Cross References
Psalms 137:1By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.
Isaiah 21:4My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.
Isaiah 24:7The new wine mourns. The vine languishes. All the merry-hearted do sigh.
Daniel 6:18Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting, nor were instruments of music brought before him. And his sleep fled from him.
Matthew Henry on Job 30:16-31
Job Complains of His Affliction. ( b. c. 1520.) 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. 16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. 18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. 20 I cry unto thee,… Read the whole commentary →