Job 30:25
Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
Majority Standard Bible
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
24Yet no one stretches out his hand against a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
26But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
Cross References
Job 24:4They push the needy off the road and force all the poor of the land into hiding.
Job 29:16I was a father to the needy, and I took up the case of the stranger.
Job 31:31if the men of my house have not said, ‘Who is there who has not had his fill?’—
Psalms 35:13Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
Proverbs 14:31Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
Proverbs 19:17Kindness to the poor is a loan to the LORD, and He will repay the lender.
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 →