Job 30:25
Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.
Brenton Septuagint
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
24Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself, or at least ask another, and he should do this for me.
26But I, when I waited for good things, behold, days of evils came the more upon me.
Cross References
Job 24:4They have turned aside the weak from the right way: and the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together.
Job 29:16I was the father of the helpless; and I searched out the cause which I knew not.
Job 31:31And if too my handmaids have often said, Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh; (whereas I was very kind:
Psalms 35:13There have all the workers of iniquity fallen: they are cast out, and shall not be able to stand.
Proverbs 14:31He that oppresses the needy provokes his Maker: but he that honours him has pity upon the poor.
Proverbs 19:17He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord; and he will recompense to him according to his gift.
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 →