Job 30:24-31

24When someone is weak and in trouble, people do not usually try to hurt him. When someone calls aloud for help, they do not refuse to help him.

25When other people were in trouble, I wept for them. When I saw poor people it made me very upset.

26But when I hoped for good things to happen, trouble came instead. When I looked for light to shine on me, everything became dark.

27I hurt inside me all the time. Every day I suffer from pain.

28Illness has caused my skin to become black. It is not the sun that has made that happen. I stand up in the public meeting place and I call aloud for help.

29I have become like the jackals and the ostriches. My sad voice sounds like them.

30My skin has become black, and bits of skin fall off. My body is hot with fever.

31Now, when I make music with my harp, I only sing funeral songs. When I make music with my flute, I do it for people who are weeping.’