Job 30 · Verse 28

Job 30:28

I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
Job 30:28, King James Version

Job 30:28 in other translations

BSBI go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
WEBI go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
ASVI go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
YLTMourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry.
DARBYI go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation.
BBEI go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.
WebsterI went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.

What does Job 30:28 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
28. mourning--rather, I move about blackened, though not by the sun; that is, whereas many are blackened by the sun, I am, by the heat of God's wrath (so "boiled," Job 30:27); the elephantiasis covering me with blackness of skin (Job 30:30), as with the garb of mourning (Jr 14:2). This striking enigmatic form of Hebrew expression occurs, Is 29:9. stood up--as an innocent man crying for justice in an assembled court (Job 30:20).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 28 I went mourning without the sun - חמה chammah, which we here translate the sun, comes from a root of the same letters, which signifies to hide, protect, etc., and may be translated, I went mourning without a protector or guardian; or, the word may be derived from חם cham, to be hot, and here it may signify fury, rage, anger; and thus it was understood by the Vulgate: Maerens incedebam, sine furore, I went mourning without anger; or, as Calmet translates, Je marchois tout triste, mais sans me laisser aller a l'emportement; "I walked in deep sadness, but did not give way to an angry spirit." The Syriac and Arabic understood it in the same way.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 30:15-31

Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin which did, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join with outward calamities, the soul is hurried as in a tempest, and is filled with confusion. But woe be to those who really have God for an enemy! Compared with the awful state of ungodly men, what are all outward, or even inward temporal afflictions? There is something…

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Job 30:28 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

קֹדֵ֣רko.Derbeing darkH6937
הִ֭לַּכְתִּיHi.lakh.tiI have gone aboutH1980
בְּלֹ֣אbe.Lo'with notH3808
חַמָּ֑הcha.MahsunH2535
קַ֖מְתִּיKam.tiI have stoodH6965
בַקָּהָ֣לva.ka.Halin the assemblyH6951
אֲשַׁוֵּֽעַ\׃'a.sha.Ve.a'I cry out for helpH7768

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 30:28

  • Psalms 42:9

    I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • Psalms 43:2

    For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  • Psalms 38:6

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

  • Job 19:7

    Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

  • Lamentations 3:1-3

    I am the man that hath seen affliction by the rod of his wrath. He hath led me, and brought me into darkness, but not into light. Surely against me is he turned; he turneth his hand against me all the day.

  • Isaiah 53:3-4

    He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not. Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ps 38:6; 42:9; 43:2; Isa 53:3,4; La 3:1-3

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Context

  • Job 30:27

    My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

  • Job 30:28

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

  • Job 30:29

    I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

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Job 30:28 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Denegrido ando, y no por el sol: levantádome he en la congregación, y clamado.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Je marche tout noirci, mais non par le soleil; je me lève dans l’assemblée, je crie;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Trauernd gehe ich einher, ohne Sonne; ich stehe auf in der Versammlung und schreie.
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Mœrens incedebam sine furore; consurgens, in turba clamabam.