English Standard Version
Job 30:28
28I go about darkened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I walk in gloom, without sunlight. I stand in the public square and cry for help.
Context of Job 30:28
26But when I hoped for good, evil came, and when I waited for light, darkness came. 27My inward parts are in turmoil and never still; days of affliction come to meet me. I go about darkened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help. 29I am a brother of jackals and a companion of ostriches. 30My skin turns black and falls from me, and my bones burn with heat.
Read all of Job 30Job 30:28 word by word
קֹדֵ֣ר הִ֭לַּכְתִּי בְּלֹ֣א חַמָּ֑ה קַ֖מְתִּי בַקָּהָ֣ל אֲשַׁוֵּֽעַ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 30:28
- Psalms 38:6I am utterly bowed down and prostrate; all the day I go about mourning.
- Psalms 42:9I say to God, my rock: "Why have you forgotten me? Why do I go mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?"
- Psalms 43:2For you are the God in whom I take refuge; why have you rejected me? Why do I go about mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?
- Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows and acquainted with grief; and as one from whom men hide their faces he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
- Lamentations 3:1I am the man who has seen affliction under 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
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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
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