Job 30:31
And thus is changed to mourning my harp, and my pipe to the sound of weeping.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
In Context
30My skin hangeth down black from me, and my bones are burnt from heat.
Cross References
Psalms 137:1By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat, and we also wept when we remembered Zion.
Isaiah 21:4My heart wandereth astray, dread affrighteth me: the evening of my pleasure hath he turned unto me into terror.
Isaiah 24:7The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted sigh.
Daniel 6:18(6:19) Then went the king to his palace, and passed the night fasting: and no food was brought before him; and his sleep fled from 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 →