Job 30:31 My lyre is tuned to mourning, and my pipe to the sound of wailing.

◄ Job 30:31 ►

Parallel Verses

New International Version
My lyre is tuned to mourning, and my pipe to the sound of wailing.

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

New American Standard Bible
"Therefore my harp is turned to mourning, And my flute to the sound of those who weep.

King James Bible
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
My lyre is used for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.

International Standard Version
But my harp is in mourning; my flute plays only songs for those who are weeping." Job Asserts His Moral Innocence

American Standard Version
Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.

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

Darby Bible Translation
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers.

Young's Literal Translation
And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.

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

31. organ—rather, "pipe" (Job 21:12). "My joy is turned into the voice of weeping" (La 5:15). These instruments are properly appropriated to joy (Isa 30:29, 32), which makes their use now in sorrow the sadder by contrast.