Job 30:25
Once, I wept over him who was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
Cross References
Job 24:4They have undermined the way of the poor, and have pressed together the meek of the earth.
Job 29:16I was the father of the poor; and if I lacked knowledge about any case, I investigated very diligently.
Job 31:31if the men around my tabernacle have not said: “He might give us some of his food, so that we will be filled,”
Psalms 35:13In that place, those who work iniquity have fallen. They have been expelled; they were not able to stand.
Proverbs 14:31Whoever slanders the indigent argues against his Maker. But he who has compassion on the poor honors his Maker.
Proverbs 19:17Whoever is merciful to the poor lends to the Lord. And he will repay him for his efforts.
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 →