Job 30:31

Authorized King James Version (1611)

My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ 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 musick brought before him: and his sleep went from him.
  • Ps 137:1-4 : 1 ¶ By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof. 3 For there they that carried us away captive required of us a song; and they that wasted us [required of us] mirth, [saying], Sing us [one] of the songs of Zion. 4 How shall we sing the LORD'S song in a strange 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 panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
  • Isa 22:12 : 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:
  • Isa 24:7-9 : 7 The new wine mourneth, the vine languisheth, all the merryhearted 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 upon 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 bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

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

  • Isa 16:10-11
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    10 And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in [their] presses; I have made [their vintage] shouting to cease.

    11 Wherefore my bowels shall sound like an harp for Moab, and mine inward parts for Kirharesh.

  • Ps 31:9-10
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    9 ¶ Have mercy upon me, O LORD, for I am in trouble: mine eye is consumed with grief, [yea], my soul and my belly.

    10 For my life is spent with grief, and my years with sighing: my strength faileth because of mine iniquity, and my bones are consumed.

  • 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 upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

    17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

  • 11 Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;

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

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

    16 My face is foul with weeping, and on my eyelids [is] the shadow of death;

  • Job 17:6-7
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    6 He hath made me also a byword of the people; and aforetime I was as a tabret.

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

  • 18 [When] I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart [is] faint in me.

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

  • 31 Therefore will I howl for Moab, and I will cry out for all Moab; [mine heart] shall mourn for the men of Kirheres.

  • 21 ¶ Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reins.

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

  • Lam 1:20-21
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    20 Behold, O LORD; for I [am] in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine 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 called, and they shall be like unto me.

  • Lam 1:12-13
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    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 done unto me, wherewith the LORD hath afflicted [me] in the day of his fierce anger.

    13 From above 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 merryhearted 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 mine heart shall sound for Moab like pipes, and mine heart shall sound like pipes for the men of Kirheres: because the riches [that] he hath gotten are perished.

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

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

  • Lam 3:3-4
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    3 Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand [against me] all the day.

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

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

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

  • 3 When I kept silence, my bones waxed old through my roaring all the day long.

  • 17 For I [am] ready to halt, and my sorrow [is] continually before me.

  • 38 If my land cry against me, or that the furrows likewise thereof complain;

  • 21 For the hurt of the daughter of my people am I hurt; I am black; astonishment hath taken hold on me.

  • 24 For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.

  • 3 My tears have been my meat 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 was 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 poor?

  • 14 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.

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

  • 20 My tabernacle is spoiled, and all my cords are broken: my children are gone forth of me, and they [are] not: [there is] none to stretch forth my tent any more, and to set up my curtains.

  • 4 My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

  • 8 ¶ Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.