Job 30:25
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
King James Version
In Context
24Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.
26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
Cross References
Job 24:4They turn the needy out of the way: the poor of the earth hide themselves together.
Job 29:16I was a father to the poor: and the cause which I knew not I searched out.
Job 31:31If the men of my tabernacle said not, Oh that we had of his flesh! we cannot be satisfied.
Psalms 35:13But as for me, when they were sick, my clothing was sackcloth: I humbled my soul with fasting; and my prayer returned into mine own bosom.
Proverbs 14:31He that oppresseth the poor reproacheth his Maker: but he that honoureth him hath mercy on the poor.
Proverbs 19:17He that hath pity upon the poor lendeth unto the LORD; and that which he hath given will he pay him again.
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 →