Job 30:25
If I have not wept for him that was in trouble, and if my soul grieved not for the needy.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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
26Yet, when I looked for good, there came evil; and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Cross References
Job 24:4They turn the needy out of the way; the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Job 29:16I was a father to the needy; and the cause of him that I knew not I searched out.
Job 31:31If the men of my tent said not: 'Who can find one that hath not been satisfied with his meat?'
Psalms 35:13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth, I afflicted my soul with fasting; and my prayer, may it return into mine own bosom.
Proverbs 14:31He that oppresseth the poor blasphemeth his Maker; but he that is gracious unto the needy honoureth Him.
Proverbs 19:17He that is gracious unto the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and his good deed will He repay unto 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 →