Job 30:28
I am so depressed; seeing the sun doesn't help. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
In Context
27Inside I am in turmoil, it never stops; I face days of despair.
29I am like a brother to the jackals, a companion to owls.
Cross References
Job 19:7Even though I cry for help, I get no answer; even though I shout my objections, I get no justice.
Psalms 42:9I cry out, “My God, my rock, why have you forgotten me? Why must I go around weeping because of the attacks of my enemies?”
Isaiah 53:3People despised him and rejected him. He was a man who really suffered and who experienced the deepest pain. We treated him like someone you turn away from in disgust—we despised him and had no respect for 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 →