Job 30:28

Bible in Basic English (1941)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 42:9 : 9 I will say to God my Rock, Why have you let me go from your memory? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
  • Ps 43:2 : 2 You are the God of my strength; why have you put me from you? why do I go in sorrow because of the attacks of my haters?
  • Ps 38:6 : 6 I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.
  • Job 19:7 : 7 Truly, I make an outcry against the violent man, but there is no answer: I give a cry for help, but no one takes up my cause.
  • Isa 53:3-4 : 3 Men made sport of him, turning away from him; he was a man of sorrows, marked by disease; and like one from whom men's faces are turned away, he was looked down on, and we put no value on him. 4 But it was our pain he took, and our diseases were put on him: while to us he seemed as one diseased, on whom God's punishment had come.
  • Lam 3:1-3 : 1 I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath. 2 By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light. 3 Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

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    6 I am troubled, I am made low; I go weeping all the day.

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    29 I have become a brother to the jackals, and go about in the company of ostriches.

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    19 Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.

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    8 My voice went up to you, O Lord; I made my prayer to the Lord.

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    17 My feet are near to falling, and my sorrow is ever before me.

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    18 Sorrow has come on me! my heart in me is feeble.

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