Job 30:31

American Standard Version (1901)

Therefore is my harp [turned] to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.

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Referenced Verses

  • Lam 5:15 : 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.
  • Dan 6:18 : 18 Then the king went to his palace, and passed the night fasting; neither were instruments of music brought before him: and his sleep fled from him.
  • Ps 137:1-4 : 1 By the rivers of Babylon, There we sat down, yea, we wept, When we remembered Zion. 2 Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps. 3 For there they that led us captive required of us songs, And they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying], Sing us one of the songs of Zion. 4 How shall we sing Jehovah's song In a foreign land?
  • Eccl 3:4 : 4 a time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;
  • Isa 21:4 : 4 My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.
  • Isa 22:12 : 12 And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
  • Isa 24:7-9 : 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh. 8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 30 My skin is black, [and falleth] from me, And my bones are burned with heat.

  • 15 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

  • Job 30:27-28
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    27 My heart is troubled, and resteth not; Days of affliction are come upon me.

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

  • Isa 16:10-11
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    76%

    10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: no treader shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the [vintage] shout to cease.

    11 Wherefore my heart soundeth like a harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kir-heres.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9 Have mercy upon me, O Jehovah, for I am in distress: Mine eye wasteth away with grief, [yea], my soul and my body.

    10 For my life is spent with sorrow, And my years with sighing: My strength faileth because of mine iniquity, And my bones are wasted away.

  • 4 Therefore is my spirit overwhelmed within me; My heart within me is desolate.

  • Job 30:16-17
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    16 And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

    17 In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.

  • 11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing; Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

  • 5 By reason of the voice of my groaning My bones cleave to my flesh.

  • Job 16:15-16
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    15 I have sewed sackcloth upon my skin, And have laid my horn in the dust.

    16 My face is red with weeping, And on my eyelids is the shadow of death;

  • Job 17:6-7
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    6 But he hath made me a byword of the people; And they spit in my face.

    7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, And all my members are as a shadow.

  • 18 Oh that I could comfort myself against sorrow! my heart is faint within me.

  • 8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

  • 31 Therefore will I wail for Moab; yea, I will cry out for all Moab: for the men of Kir-heres shall they mourn.

  • 21 For my soul was grieved, And I was pricked in my heart:

  • 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

  • Lam 1:20-21
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    72%

    20 Behold, O Jehovah; for I am in distress; my heart is troubled; My heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: Abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.

    21 They have heard that I sigh; there is none to comfort me; all mine enemies have heard of my trouble; they are glad that thou hast done it: Thou wilt bring the day that thou hast proclaimed, and they shall be like unto me.

  • Lam 1:12-13
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    72%

    12 Is it nothing to you, all ye that pass by? Behold, and see if there be any sorrow like unto my sorrow, which is brought upon me, Wherewith Jehovah hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.

    13 From on high hath he sent fire into my bones, and it prevaileth against them; He hath spread a net for my feet, he hath turned me back: He hath made me desolate and faint all the day.

  • Isa 24:7-8
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    7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merry-hearted do sigh.

    8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

  • 4 My heart is sore pained within me: And the terrors of death are fallen upon me.

  • 36 Therefore my heart soundeth for Moab like pipes, and my heart soundeth like pipes for the men of Kir-heres: therefore the abundance that he hath gotten is perished.

  • 16 For these things I weep; mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water; Because the comforter that should refresh my soul is far from me: My children are desolate, because the enemy hath prevailed.

  • 6 I am pained and bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

  • Lam 3:3-4
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    3 Surely against me he turneth his hand again and again all the day.

    4 My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

  • 3 With an instrument of ten strings, and with the psaltery; With a solemn sound upon the harp.

  • 2 Upon the willows in the midst thereof We hanged up our harps.

  • 3 When I kept silence, my bones wasted away Through my groaning all the day long.

  • 17 For I am ready to fall, And my sorrow is continually before me.

  • 38 If my land crieth out against me, And the furrows thereof weep together;

  • 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt: I mourn; dismay hath taken hold on me.

  • 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, And my groanings are poured out like water.

  • 3 My tears have been my food day and night, While they continually say unto me, Where is thy God?

  • 11 He hath turned aside my ways, and pulled me in pieces; he hath made me desolate.

  • 14 I am become a derision to all my people, and their song all the day.

  • 25 Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

  • 14 I am poured out like water, And all my bones are out of joint: My heart is like wax; It is melted within me.

  • 10 My heart throbbeth, my strength faileth me: As for the light of mine eyes, it also is gone from me.

  • 20 My tent is destroyed, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth from me, and they are not: there is none to spread my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

  • 4 My heart fluttereth, horror hath affrighted me; the twilight that I desired hath been turned into trembling unto me.

  • 8 For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.