Job 30:31
My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.
Majority Standard Bible
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 grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
Cross References
Psalms 137:1By the rivers of Babylon we sat and wept when we remembered Zion.
Isaiah 21:4My heart falters; fear makes me tremble. The twilight I desired has turned to horror.
Isaiah 24:7The new wine dries up, the vine withers. All the merrymakers now groan.
Daniel 6:18Then the king went to his palace and spent the night fasting. No entertainment was brought before him, and sleep fled from 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 →