Job 30:25
Didn’t I weep for him who was in trouble? Wasn’t my soul grieved for the needy?
World English Bible Classic
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
24“However doesn’t one stretch out a hand in his fall? Or in his calamity therefore cry for help?
26When I looked for good, then evil came. When I waited for light, darkness came.
Cross References
Job 24:4They turn the needy out of the way. The poor of the earth all hide themselves.
Job 29:16I was a father to the needy. I researched the cause of him whom I didn’t know.
Job 31:31if the men of my tent have not said, ‘Who can find one who has not been filled with his meat?’
Psalms 35:13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth. I afflicted my soul with fasting. My prayer returned into my own bosom.
Proverbs 14:31He who oppresses the poor shows contempt for his Maker, but he who is kind to the needy honors him.
Proverbs 19:17He who has pity on the poor lends to the LORD; he will reward 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 →