the Week of Proper 25 / Ordinary 30
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Job 30:31
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My harp plays sad music, and my flute accompanies those who weep.
Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
Therefore my harp is [turned] to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of those that weep.
My harp is tuned to sing a sad song, and my flute is tuned to moaning.
My harp is used for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.
My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
"Therefore my lyre (harp) is used for [the sound of] mourning, And my flute for the [sound of the] voices of those who weep.
My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.
Myn harpe is turned in to morenyng, and myn orgun in to the vois of weperis.
My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.
My only songs are sorrow and sadness.
Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.
So my lyre is tuned for mourning, my pipe to the voice of those who weep.
My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers.
My harp is tuned to play songs of sorrow. My flute makes sad sounds like someone crying.
Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
My harpe also is turned to mourning, and my organe into the voyce of them that weepe.
So my harp is turned to sorrow, and my horn to the sound of crying.
My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.
Therefore mine harpe is turned to mourning, and mine organs into the voyce of them that weepe.
My harp is also turned to mourning, and my song to the voice of those who weep.
Where once I heard joyful music, now I hear only mourning and weeping.
Thus is attuned to mourning - my lyre, and my flute, to the noise of them who weep.
My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.
My lyre is turned to mourning, and my pipe to the voice of those who weep.
My harpe is turned to mourning, and my organs into the voyce of them that weepe.
My harp also has been turned into mourning, and my song into my weeping.
My lyre is used for mourningand my flute for the sound of weeping.
Therefore is my harp turned to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
So my lyre came to be used for mourning, and my flute for the voice of those who weep.
And my lyre has turned to mourning, and My flute vibrates to the sound of weeping.
And my harp doth become mourning, And my organ the sound of weeping.
my harpe is turned to sorow, & my pipe to wepinge.
"Therefore my harp is turned to mourning, And my flute to the sound of those who weep.
My harp is turned to mourning, And my flute to the voice of those who weep.
"Therefore my harp is turned to mourning, And my flute to the sound of those who weep.
Therefore my harp is turned to mourning,And my flute to the sound of those who weep.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Psalms 137:1-4, Ecclesiastes 3:4, Isaiah 21:4, Isaiah 22:12, Isaiah 24:7-9, Lamentations 5:15, Daniel 6:18
Reciprocal: Psalms 150:4 - organs Lamentations 5:14 - the young James 4:9 - let
Cross-References
And she gave him Bilhah her handmaid to wife: and Jacob went in unto her.
And Rachel said, God hath judged me, and hath also heard my voice, and hath given me a son: therefore called she his name Dan.
It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man.
Let your conversation be without covetousness; and be content with such things as ye have: for he hath said, I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My harp also is [turned] to mourning,.... Which he used, as David, either in religious worship, expressing praise to God thereby, or for his recreation in an innocent way; but now it was laid aside, and, instead of it, nothing was heard from him, or in his house, but the voice of mourning:
and my organ into the voice of them that weep; another instrument of music, which had its name from the pleasantness of its sound, and was of early use, being first invented by Jubal, Genesis 4:21; but not that we now so call, which is of late invention: those instruments which Job might have and use, both in a civil and in a religious way, were now, through afflictions, become useless to him, and neglected by him; or these expressions in general may signify, that, instead of mirth and joy he was wont to have, there were nothing now to be heard but lamentation and woe; see Lamentations 5:15.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
My harp also is turned to mourning - What formerly gave cheerful sounds, now gives only notes of plaintiveness and lamentation. The harp was probably an instrument originally designed to give sounds of joy. For a description of it, see the notes at Isaiah 5:12.
And my organ - The form of what is here called the organ, is not certainly known. The word עגב ‛ûgâb is doubtless from עגב ‛âgab, “to breathe, to blow”; and most probably the instrument hero intended was the pipe. For a description of it, see the notes at Isaiah 5:12. This instrument, also, was played, as would appear, on joyous occasions, but Job now says that it was turned to grief. All that had been joyous with him had fled. His honor was taken away; his friends were gone; they who had treated him with reverence now stood at a distance, or treated him with contempt; his health was departed, and his former appearance, indicating a station of affluence, was changed for the dark complexion produced by disease, and the instruments of joyousness now gave forth only notes of sorrow.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 30:31. My harp also is turned to mourning — Instead of the harp, my only music is my own plaintive cries.
And my organ — What the עגב uggab was, we know not; it was most probably some sort of pipe or wind instrument. His harp, כנור kinnor, and his pipe, עגב uggab, were equally mute, or only used for mournful ditties.
THIS chapter is full of the most painful and pathetic sorrow; but nevertheless tempered with a calmness and humiliation of spirit, which did not appear in Job's lamentations previously to the time in which he had that remarkable revelation mentioned in the nineteenth chapter. Job 19:25 After he was assured that his Redeemer was the living God, he submitted to his dispensations, kissed the rod, and mourned not without hope, though in deep distress, occasioned by his unremitting sufferings. If the groaning of Job was great, his stroke was certainly heavy.
