Job 30:31
My harp also has been turned into mourning, and my song into my weeping.
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
In Context
30And my skin has been greatly blackened, and my bones are burned with heat.
Cross References
Psalms 137:1I will give you thanks, O Lord, with my whole heart; and I will sing psalms to you before the angels; for you have heard all the words of my mouth. 1
Isaiah 21:4My heart wanders, and transgression + 21:4 Lit. baptizes overwhelms me; my soul is occupied with fear.
Isaiah 24:7The wine shall mourn, the vine shall mourn, all the merry-hearted shall sigh.
Daniel 6:18And the king departed to his house, and lay down fasting, and they brought him no food; and his sleep departed from him. But God shut the mouths of the lions, and they not molest Daniel.
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 →