Job 30:28
I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
In Context
27My feelings are strongly moved, and give me no rest; days of trouble have overtaken me.
29I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.
Cross References
Job 19:7Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.
Psalms 42:9\42:8\But the Lord will send his mercy in the daytime, and in the night his song will be with me, a prayer to the God of my life.
Isaiah 53:3Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on 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 →