Job 30:25
Did not I weepe with him that was in trouble? was not my soule in heauinesse for the poore?
Geneva Bible 1599
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
24Doubtles none can stretch his hand vnto the graue, though they cry in his destruction.
26Yet when I looked for good, euill came vnto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkenesse.
Cross References
Job 24:4They make the poore to turne out of the way, so that the poore of the earth hide themselues together.
Job 29:16I was a father vnto the poore, and when I knewe not the cause, I sought it out diligently.
Job 31:31Did not the men of my Tabernacle say, Who shall giue vs of his flesh? we can not bee satisfied.
Psalms 35:13Yet I, when they were sicke, I was clothed with a sacke: I humbled my soule with fasting: and my praier was turned vpon my bosome.
Proverbs 14:31He that oppresseth the poore, reprooueth him that made him: but hee honoureth him, that hath mercie on the poore.
Proverbs 19:17He that hath mercy vpon the poore, lendeth vnto the Lord: and the Lord will recompense him that which he hath giuen.
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 →