Job 30:31
And my harp becomes mourning, || And my pipe the sound of weeping.”
Literal Standard Version
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 has been black on me, || And my bone has burned from heat,
Cross References
Psalms 137:1By rivers of Babylon—There we sat, || Indeed, we wept when we remembered Zion.
Isaiah 21:4My heart has wandered, trembling has terrified me, || He has made the twilight of my desire a fear to me,
Isaiah 24:7The new wine has mourned, the vine languished, || All the joyful of heart have sighed.
Daniel 6:18Then the king has gone to his palace, and he has passed the night fasting, and dahavan have not been brought up before him, and his sleep has fled [from] off 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 →