Job 30:28

Job 30:28 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
• New International Version (NIV)I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
• English Standard Version (ESV)I go about darkened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
• New King James Version (NKJV)I go about mourning, but not in the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.

Context of Job 30:28

26For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness. 27My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me. I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation. 29I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches. 30My skin is become black [and falleth] off me, and my bones are parched with heat.

Job 30:28 word by word

קֹדֵ֣ר הִ֭לַּכְתִּי בְּלֹ֣א חַמָּ֑ה קַ֖מְתִּי בַקָּהָ֣ל אֲשַׁוֵּֽעַ׃Read the interlinear

• goהָלַךְhâlak · to go: wentH1980
• sunחַמָּהchammâh · heatH2535
• standקָמָיqûm · (Leb)-kamaiH6965
• cryשָׁוַעshâva‛ · to cryH7768

Cross-references for Job 30:28

• Psalms 38:6I am depressed; I am bowed down beyond measure; I go mourning all the day.
• Psalms 42:9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
• Psalms 43:2For thou art the God of my strength: why hast thou cast me off? why go I about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
• Isaiah 53:3He is despised and left alone of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief, and like one from whom [men] hide their faces; — despised, and we esteemed him not.
• Lamentations 3:1I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath.

Commentaries on Job 30:28

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 28I went mourning without the sun - חמה chammah, which we here translate the sun, comes from a root of the same letters, which signifies to hide, protect, etc., and may be translated, I went mourning without a protector or guardian; or, the word may be derived from חם cham, to be hot, and here it may signify fury, rage, anger; and thus it was understood by the Vulgate: Maerens incedebam, sine furore, I went mourning without anger; or, as Calmet translates…Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 28I went mourning - Or rather, “I go,” in the present tense, for he is now referring to his present calamities, and not to what was past. The word rendered “mourning,” however (קדר qâdar ), means here rather to be dark, dingy, tanned. It literally means to be foul or turbid, like a torrent, Job 6:16; then to go about in filthy garments, as they do who mourn, Job 5:11; Jeremiah 14:2; then to be dusky, or of a dark color, or to become dark. Thus, it is…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-31Verses 15-31 Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin which did, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join with outward calamities, the soul is hurried as in a tempest, and is filled with confusion. But woe be to those who really have God for an enemy! Compared with the awful state of ungodly men, what are all outward, or even inward temporal afflictions? There is something with which Job comforts…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 28Before his testing began, people respected Job in the public square (29:7–10, 21–25). He helped those in need (29:11–17).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2828. mourning--rather, I move about blackened, though not by the sun; that is, whereas many are blackened by the sun, I am, by the heat of God's wrath (so "boiled," Job 30:27); the elephantiasis covering me with blackness of skin (Job 30:30), as with the garb of mourning (Jr 14:2). This striking enigmatic form of Hebrew expression occurs, Is 29:9. stood up--as an innocent man crying for justice in an assembled court (Job 30:20).Read the comment

In the dictionaries

• Cord
• Dissolve
• Prevent
• Profit
• Thief
• Color; Colors
• Cry, Crying
• Job, Book of

Commentaries on Job 30

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary