Job 30:31

Webster's Bible (1833)

Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of those who 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. Yes, we wept, when we remembered Zion. 2 On the willows in the midst of it, We hung up our harps. 3 For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!" 4 How can we sing Yahweh'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 flutters, horror has frightened me; the twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.
  • Isa 22:12 : 12 In that day did the Lord, Yahweh of Hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
  • Isa 24:7-9 : 7 The new wine mourns, the vine languishes, all the merry-hearted do sigh. 8 The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases. 9 They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to those who drink it.

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    30My skin grows black and peels from me. My bones are burned with heat.

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

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    27My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me.

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    10Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither joyful noise: nobody shall tread out wine in the presses; I have made the [vintage] shout to cease.

    11Why my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.

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    9Have mercy on me, Yahweh, for I am in distress. My eye, my soul, and my body waste away with grief.

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    11You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

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    5By reason of the voice of my groaning, My bones stick to my skin.

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    15I have sewed sackcloth on my skin, And have thrust my horn in the dust.

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

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    21For my soul was grieved. I was embittered in my heart.

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    10I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; And I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, And baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, And the end of it like a bitter day.

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

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    36Therefore my heart sounds for Moab like pipes, and my heart sounds like pipes for the men of Kir Heres: therefore the abundance that he has gotten is perished.

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

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    4My heart flutters, horror has frightened me; the twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling to me.

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    8For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, And moan like the daughters of owls.