Job 30:31
And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.
Young's Literal Translation
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 hath been black upon me, And my bone hath burned from heat,
Cross References
Psalms 137:1By rivers of Babylon — There we did sit, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.
Isaiah 21:4Wandered hath my heart, trembling hath terrified me, The twilight of my desire He hath made a fear to me,
Isaiah 24:7Mourned hath the new wine, languished the vine, Sighed have all the joyful of heart.
Daniel 6:18Then hath the king gone to his palace, and he hath passed the night fasting, and dahavan have not been brought up before him, and his sleep hath fled [from] off 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 →