Job 30:28
I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
In Context
27I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.
29I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
Cross References
Job 19:7Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
Psalms 42:9I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like one from whom men hide their faces, He was despised, and we esteemed Him not.
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 →