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Job 30:28 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation. "
Job 30:28
Verse in Context
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When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.
My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.
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Job 30:1
"But now they that are younger than I have me in derision, whose fathers I would have disdained to have set with the dogs of my flock."
Job 30:2
"Yea, whereto might the strength of their hands profit me, in whom old age was perished?"
Job 30:3
"For want and famine they were solitary; fleeing into the wilderness in former time desolate and waste."
Job 30:4
"Who cut up mallows by the bushes, and juniper roots for their meat."
Job 30:5
"They were driven forth from among men, (they cried after them as after a thief;)"
Job 30:6
"To dwell in the clifts of the valleys, in caves of the earth, and in the rocks."
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