Job 30:25
Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
In Context
26For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
Cross References
Job 24:4The crushed are turned out of the way; all the poor of the earth go into a secret place together.
Job 29:16I was a father to the poor, searching out the cause of him who was strange to me.
Job 31:31If the men of my tent did not say, Who has not had full measure of his meat?
Psalms 35:13But as for me, when they were ill I put on the clothing of sorrow: I went without food and was sad, and my prayer came back again to my heart.
Proverbs 14:31He who is hard on the poor puts shame on his Maker; but he who has mercy on those who are in need gives him honour.
Proverbs 19:17He who has pity on the poor gives to the Lord, and the Lord will give him his reward.
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 →