31My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. …
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-31)In this second part of Job’s complaint, which is very bitter, and has a great many sorrowful accents in it, we may observe a great deal that he complains of and some little that he comforts himself with. I. Here is much that he complains of. 1. In general, it was a day of great affliction and sorrow. (1.) Affliction seized him, and surprised him. It seized him (Job 30:16): The days of affliction h…
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