Job 30:28
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.”
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“I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.”
King James Version · Public Domain“I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Job 30:28 — 6 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Job 19:7Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.
- Psalms 38:6I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.
- Psalms 42:9I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”
- Psalms 43:2For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?
- Isaiah 53:3He was despised and rejected by men, a man of sorrows, acquainted with grief. Like 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 God’s wrath.
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