Job 30:31 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Job 30:31 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Lamentations 5:15
The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
Isaiah 21:4
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
Psalms 137:1-4
By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. …
Isaiah 22:12
And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
Isaiah 24:7-9
The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted do sigh. …

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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…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 31)

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 (Is 30:29, 32), which makes their use now in sorrow the sadder by contrast.