New International Version
Job 30:25
25Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor?
Job 30:25 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
- English Standard Version (ESV)Did not I weep for him whose day was hard? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
- New King James Version (NKJV)Have I not wept for him who was in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor?
- New Living Translation (NLT)Did I not weep for those in trouble? Was I not deeply grieved for the needy?
Context of Job 30:25
23I know you will bring me down to death, to the place appointed for all the living. 24“Surely no one lays a hand on a broken man when he cries for help in his distress. Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has not my soul grieved for the poor? 26Yet when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, then came darkness. 27The churning inside me never stops; days of suffering confront me.
Read all of Job 30Job 30:25 word by word
אִם־לֹ֣א בָ֭כִיתִי לִקְשֵׁה־י֑וֹם עָֽגְמָ֥ה נַ֝פְשִׁ֗י לָאֶבְיֽוֹן׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 30:25
- Psalms 35:13Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth and humbled myself with fasting. When my prayers returned to me unanswered,
- Jeremiah 13:17If you do not listen, I will weep in secret because of your pride; my eyes will weep bitterly, overflowing with tears, because the Lord’s flock will be taken captive.
- Jeremiah 18:20Should good be repaid with evil? Yet they have dug a pit for me. Remember that I stood before you and spoke in their behalf to turn your wrath away from them.
- Luke 19:41As he approached Jerusalem and saw the city, he wept over it
- John 11:35Jesus wept.
- Romans 12:15Rejoice with those who rejoice; mourn with those who mourn.
- Job 31:16“If I have denied the desires of the poor or let the eyes of the widow grow weary,
- Psalms 12:1Help, Lord, for no one is faithful anymore; those who are loyal have vanished from the human race.
- Proverbs 14:21It is a sin to despise one’s neighbor, but blessed is the one who is kind to the needy.
- Proverbs 17:5Whoever mocks the poor shows contempt for their Maker; whoever gloats over disaster will not go unpunished.
- Proverbs 19:17Whoever is kind to the poor lends to the Lord, and he will reward them for what they have done.
- Proverbs 28:8Whoever increases wealth by taking interest or profit from the poor amasses it for another, who will be kind to the poor.
- Isaiah 58:7Is it not to share your food with the hungry and to provide the poor wanderer with shelter— when you see the naked, to clothe them, and not to turn away from your own flesh and blood?
- Daniel 4:27Therefore, Your Majesty, be pleased to accept my advice: Renounce your sins by doing what is right, and your wickedness by being kind to the oppressed. It may be that then your prosperity will continue.”
- 2 Corinthians 9:9As it is written: “They have freely scattered their gifts to the poor; their righteousness endures forever.”
Commentaries on Job 30:25
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? - Mr. Good translates much nearer the sense of the original, יום לקשה liksheh yom . "Should I not then weep for the ruthless day?" May I not lament that my sufferings are only to terminate with my life? Or, Did I not mourn for those who suffered by times of calamity? Was not my soul grieved for the poor? Did I not relieve the distressed according to my power; and did I not sympathize with the sufferer?Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 25Did not I weep - Job here appeals to his former life, and says that it had been a characteristic of his life to manifest compassion to the afflicted and the poor. His object in doing this is, evidently, to show how remarkable it was that he was so much afflicted. “Did I deserve,” the sense is, “such a hard lot? Has it been brought on me by my own fault, or as a punishment for a life where no compassion was shown to others?” So far from it, he says, that…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. 1-31Job compares his past happiness, honor, and wealth with his current loss of social dignity and divine friendship (chapters 29 and 30). He ends his speech with broad vows of innocence (chapter 31).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2525. May I not be allowed to complain of my calamity, and beg relief, seeing that I myself sympathized with those "in trouble" (literally, "hard of day"; those who had a hard time of it).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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