Job 30:25
Did I not weep for him whose day is hard? My soul has grieved for the needy.
Literal Standard 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
24Surely not against the heap || Does He send forth the hand, || Though they have safety in its ruin.
26When I expected good, then comes evil, || And I wait for light, and darkness comes.
Cross References
Job 24:4They turn aside the needy from the way, || Together have hid the poor of the earth.
Job 29:16I [am] a father to the needy, || And the cause I have not known I search out.
Job 31:31If not, say, O men of my tent: O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.
Psalms 35:13And I—in their sickness my clothing [is] sackcloth, || I have humbled my soul with fastings, || And my prayer returns to my bosom.
Proverbs 14:31An oppressor of the poor reproaches his Maker, || And whoever is honoring Him || Is favoring the needy.
Proverbs 19:17Whoever is lending [to] YHWH is favoring the poor, || And He repays his deed to 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 →