Job 30:28 “I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly a…”

Job 30:28

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

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

World English Bible

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

American Standard Version

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

Geneva Bible 1599

I went mourning without sunne: I stood vp in the congregation and cryed.

Darby 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.

Bible in Basic English

I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.

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Cross references

“I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.”

Psalm 38:6 Psalm 42:9 Psalm 43:2 Lamentations 3:1–3 Isaiah 53:3 Isaiah 53:4

Psalm 38:6 · BSB

I am bent and brought low; all day long I go about mourning.

Psalm 42:9 · BSB

I say to God my Rock, “Why have You forgotten me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?”

Psalm 43:2 · BSB

For You are the God of my refuge. Why have You rejected me? Why must I walk in sorrow because of the enemy’s oppression?

Lamentations 3:1–3 · BSB

I am the man who has seen affliction under the rod of God’s wrath.

Isaiah 53:3 · BSB

He 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.

Isaiah 53:4 · BSB

Surely He took up our infirmities and carried our sorrows; yet we considered Him stricken, struck down by God, and afflicted.

Also

Job 19:7

Job 19:7 · BSB

Though I cry out, ‘Violence!’ I get no response; though I call for help, there is no justice.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

27I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.

29I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

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