Job 30:28 I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

◄ Job 30:28 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

English Standard Version
I go about darkened, but not by the sun; I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

New American Standard Bible
"I go about mourning without comfort; I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.

King James Bible
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
I walk about blackened, but not by the sun. I stood in the assembly and cried out for help.

International Standard Version
"In growing darkness, I walked without sunlight; I stood in the congregation to cry for help.

American Standard Version
I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.

Douay-Rheims Bible
I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd.

Darby Bible Translation
I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation.

Young's Literal Translation
Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry.

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

30:15-31 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 himself, yet it is but a little. He foresees that death will be the end of all his troubles. God's wrath might bring him to death; but his soul would be safe and happy in the world of spirits. If none pity us, yet our God, who corrects, pities us, even as a father pitieth his own children. And let us look more to the things of eternity: then the believer will cease from mourning, and joyfully praise redeeming love.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

28. 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 (Jer 14:2). This striking enigmatic form of Hebrew expression occurs, Isa 29:9.

stood up—as an innocent man crying for justice in an assembled court (Job 30:20).