Job 30:31 Explained in Context

Verse 15. ¹⁵ Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud.

Verse 16. ¹⁶ And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

Verse 17. ¹⁷ My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

Verse 18. ¹⁸ By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.

Verse 19. ¹⁹ He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

Verse 20. ²⁰ I cry unto thee, and thou dost not hear me: I stand up, and thou regardest me not.

Verse 21. ²¹ Thou art become cruel to me: with thy strong hand thou opposest thyself against me.

Verse 22. ²² Thou liftest me up to the wind; thou causest me to ride upon it, and dissolvest my substance.

Verse 23. ²³ For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living.

Verse 24. ²⁴ Howbeit he will not stretch out his hand to the grave, though they cry in his destruction.

Verse 25. ²⁵ Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

Verse 26. ²⁶ When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

Verse 27. ²⁷ My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

Verse 28. ²⁸ I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

Verse 29. ²⁹ I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

Verse 30. ³⁰ My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

Verse 31. ³¹ My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.