Job 30:25

Yet I wept over every helpless man; 1 I groaned when I saw a man in distress. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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

24Oh then that I might lay hands upon myself, 1 Or at least ask another, and he should do this for me. 1

26But I, when I waited for good things, 1 Behold, days of evils came the more upon me. 1

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Cross References

Job 24:4They have turned aside the weak from the right way: 1 And the meek of the earth have hidden themselves together. 1

Job 29:16I was the father of the helpless; 1 And I searched out the cause which I knew not. 1

Job 31:31And if too my handmaids have often said, 1 Oh that we might be satisfied with his flesh 1 (Whereas I was very kind: 1

Psalms 35:13There have all the workers of iniquity fallen: 1 They are cast out, and shall not be able to stand.

Proverbs 14:31He that oppresses the needy provokes his Maker: 1 But he that honors him has pity upon the poor. 1

Proverbs 19:17He that has pity on the poor lends to the Lord; 1 And he will recompense to him according to his gift. 1

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 →

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