Job 30:25
Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.
Young's Literal Translation
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
24Surely not against the heap Doth He send forth the hand, Though in its ruin they have safety.
26When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.
Cross References
Job 24:4They turn aside the needy from the way, Together have hid the poor of the earth.
Job 29:16A father I [am] to the needy, And the cause I have not known I search out.
Job 31:31If not — say ye, O men of my tent, 'O that we had of his flesh, we are not satisfied.'
Psalms 35:13And I — in their sickness my clothing [is] sackcloth, I have humbled with fastings my soul, And my prayer unto my bosom returneth.
Proverbs 14:31An oppressor of the poor reproacheth his Maker, And whoso is honouring Him Is favouring the needy.
Proverbs 19:17Whoso is lending [to] Jehovah is favouring the poor, And his deed He repayeth to 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 →