Job 30:31
Good News Translation
Where once I heard joyful music, now I hear only mourning and weeping.

New Revised Standard Version
My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.

Contemporary English Version
My only songs are sorrow and sadness.

New American Bible
My lyre is tuned to mourning, and my reed pipe to sounds of weeping.

Douay-Rheims Bible
My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.

Psalm 137:1-4 Upon the rivers of Babylon, there we sat and wept: when we remembered Sion: . . .

Ecclesiastes 3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance.

Isaiah 21:4 My heart failed, darkness amazed me: Babylon my beloved is become a wonder to me.

Isaiah 22:12 And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

Isaiah 24:7-9 The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the merry have sighed. . . .

Lamentations 5:15 The joy of our heart is ceased, our dancing is turned into mourning.

Daniel 6:18 And the king went away to his house, and laid himself down without taking supper, and meat was not set before him, and even sleep departed from him.

Context
Job's Prosperity Becomes Calamity
30My skin is become black upon me, and my bones are dried up with heat. 31My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.
Cross References
Job 30:28
I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd.

Psalm 137:2
On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.

Isaiah 24:8
The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that rejoice is ended, the melody of the harp is silent.

Job 30:30
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