Job 30:31
Thus is attuned to mourning—my lyre, and my flute, to the noise of them who weep.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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, turned black, and peeled off me, and, my bones, burned with heat:
Cross References
Psalms 137:1By the rivers of Babylon, there, we sat down, yea we wept—when we remembered Zion:
Isaiah 21:4My heart fluttereth, A horror, terrifieth me,—My twilight of pleasure, hath he turned for me into a time of trembling.
Isaiah 24:7Mourneth the new wine. Withereth the vine,—Sighing are all the merryhearted:
Daniel 6:18Then the king departed to his palace, and spent the night fasting, and no, table, was brought in before him,—and, his 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 →