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Job 30:26–31

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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 me.
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.
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
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From verse 26

  1. Jeremiah 8:15Rank 1 from verse 26
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    15We looked for peace, but no good came; and for a time of health, and behold trouble!

  2. Jeremiah 14:19Rank 2 from verse 26
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    19Hast thou utterly rejected Judah? hath thy soul lothed Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and there is no healing for us? we looked for peace, and there is no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

  3. Job 3:25–26Rank 3 from verse 26
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    25For the thing which I greatly feared is come upon me, and that which I was afraid of is come unto me.

    26I was not in safety, neither had I rest, neither was I quiet; yet trouble came.

  4. Isaiah 50:10Rank 4 from verse 26
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    10¶ Who is among you that feareth the Lord, that obeyeth the voice of his servant, that walketh in darkness, and hath no light? let him trust in the name of the Lord, and stay upon his God.

  5. Job 18:6Rank 5 from verse 26
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    6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

From verse 27

  1. Lamentations 2:11Rank 1 from verse 27
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    11Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.

  2. Jeremiah 31:20Rank 2 from verse 27
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    20Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.

  3. Jeremiah 4:19Rank 3 from verse 27
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    19¶ My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.

  4. Lamentations 1:20Rank 4 from verse 27
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    20Behold, 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.

  5. Psalms 22:4Rank 5 from verse 27
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    4Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.

From verse 28

  1. Psalms 38:6Rank 1 from verse 28
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    6I am troubled; I am bowed down greatly; I go mourning all the day long.

  2. Psalms 42:9Rank 2 from verse 28
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    9I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  3. Psalms 43:2Rank 3 from verse 28
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    2For thou art the God of my strength: why dost thou cast me off? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy?

  4. Isaiah 53:3–4Rank 4 from verse 28
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    3He 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.

    4¶ Surely he hath borne our griefs, and carried our sorrows: yet we did esteem him stricken, smitten of God, and afflicted.

  5. Job 19:7Rank 5 from verse 28
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    7Behold, I cry out of wrong, but I am not heard: I cry aloud, but there is no judgment.

From verse 29

  1. Micah 1:8Rank 1 from verse 29
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    8Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

  2. Psalms 102:6Rank 2 from verse 29
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    6I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.

  3. Job 17:14Rank 3 from verse 29
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    14I have said to corruption, Thou art my father: to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my sister.

  4. Malachi 1:3Rank 4 from verse 29
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    3And I hated Esau, and laid his mountains and his heritage waste for the dragons of the wilderness.

  5. Psalms 44:19Rank 5 from verse 29
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    19Though thou hast sore broken us in the place of dragons, and covered us with the shadow of death.

From verse 30

  1. Lamentations 4:8Rank 1 from verse 30
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    8Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick.

  2. Psalms 102:3Rank 2 from verse 30
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    3For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.

  3. Psalms 119:83Rank 3 from verse 30
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    83For I am become like a bottle in the smoke; yet do I not forget thy statutes.

  4. Lamentations 3:4Rank 4 from verse 30
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    4My flesh and my skin hath he made old; he hath broken my bones.

  5. Lamentations 5:10Rank 5 from verse 30
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    10Our skin was black like an oven because of the terrible famine.

From verse 31

  1. Lamentations 5:15Rank 1 from verse 31
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    15The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.

  2. Isaiah 21:4Rank 2 from verse 31
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    4My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.

  3. Daniel 6:18Rank 3 from verse 31
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    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.

  4. Ecclesiastes 3:4Rank 4 from verse 31
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    4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance;

  5. Isaiah 22:12Rank 5 from verse 31
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    12And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:

WORDS IN THIS PASSAGE

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DEFINED WORDS

Job 30:26

COMBINED MEANING

looked

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of look, meaning to direct the eyes or attention; to behold, observe, expect, or take heed.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

for

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1. In behalf of or in the place of. 2. With respect to, concerning, or toward. 3. Because of or on account of. 4. During or throughout. 5. In order to obtain or reach. 6. As a conjunction, because or seeing that.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

good

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Sense 1: Right, morally upright, beneficial, pleasing, useful, suitable, sound, favourable, or excellent. Sense 2: A good thing, benefit, welfare, possession, or goods. Sense 3: In ‘make good,’ to repair, repay, fulfil, establish, or prove.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

evil

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Sense 1: Moral wickedness, sin, wrong, or corruption. Sense 2: Harm, misery, calamity, adversity, or punishment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

waited

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Past-tense or past-participial form of wait. Sense 1: Remained in expectation or readiness. Sense 2: Attended or served.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

light

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Sense 1: Brightness or illumination. Sense 2: A source or opening that gives light. Sense 3: Figuratively, truth, knowledge, revelation, life, or favour contrasted with darkness. Sense 4: To illuminate or kindle. Sense 5: To alight or come upon. Sense 6: Slight, easy, swift, or not heavy.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

darkness

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Sense 1: Absence of light. Sense 2: Obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Job 30:27

COMBINED MEANING

bowels

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1. Figuratively, deep inward feeling or affection, especially compassion, mercy, or distress; also one deeply loved. 2. The inward organs or inner parts of the body. 3. The womb or inward bodily source of offspring.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

boiled

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1. Cooked by boiling. 2. Seethed or was violently agitated inwardly.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

rested

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Sense 1: Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of rest, meaning to cease from labour or motion, lie still, settle, remain, or rely. Sense 2: Repose, peace, security, or an abiding place.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

prevented

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of prevent, meaning to go or come before; to anticipate.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

DEFINED WORDS

Job 30:28

COMBINED MEANING

mourning

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Sense 1: Present-participial or verbal-noun form of mourn, meaning to grieve, sorrow, lament, weep, or express distress. Sense 2: To show the effects of ruin and sorrow.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

without

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Outside or on the exterior; beyond a boundary; lacking, absent, free from, not accompanied by, or apart from the person, thing, condition, means, or relation named.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

sun

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The great light that rules the day and gives light and heat.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

cried

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1. Called out, shouted, proclaimed, warned, wailed, or otherwise uttered, often loudly. 2. Appealed, prayed, complained, or called for help, justice, or attention.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

in

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1. A preposition marking position, presence, state, circumstance, manner, means, sphere, reference, relation, association, or participation. 2. As an adverb, inward, inside, or into the place or position referred to.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

congregation

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1. A gathered assembly, company, or community of people, or the people considered together as a body. 2. In the fixed expressions "tabernacle of the congregation" and "tent of the congregation," part of the name of the appointed meeting place.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Job 30:29

COMBINED MEANING

brother

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Sense 1: A male sibling; a near kinsman. Sense 2: A fellow member of a people or faith.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

dragons

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Large serpentine creatures and creatures of waste or desert places.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

companion

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One who accompanies, associates, or shares a condition, work, covenant, or fellowship with another; a fellow, mate, or partner.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Job 30:30

COMBINED MEANING

skin

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Sense 1: The natural outer covering of a person or animal; the hide or exterior covering. Sense 2: To strip off the skin or hide.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

black

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Sense 1: Of the darkest colour. Sense 2: Dark or blackened in appearance. Sense 3: Figuratively, darkened by mourning, famine, or judgment.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

upon

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1. Marks the person, place, thing, or basis to which something is related: on or onto; above or over; toward or against as the target of action, speech, thought, attention, or force; resting on, assigned to, or affecting as a state, gift, burden, duty, guilt, or judgment; supported by or based on; or one placed, added, or repeated on or after another. 2. With a stated time or occasion, or a preceding event, at that time or point, or at or after that event: on, at, when, then, or following it.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

burned

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Sense 1: Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of burn, meaning to consume, injure, heat, dry, or harden by fire or intense heat. Sense 2: To be on fire.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

heat

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Sense 1: Warmth or high temperature. Sense 2: To make or become hot.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

DEFINED WORDS

Job 30:31

COMBINED MEANING

harp

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A stringed musical instrument played with the fingers.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

turned

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of turn, meaning to change direction, position, condition, purpose, or allegiance; to cause such a change.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

COMBINED MEANING

mourning

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Sense 1: Present-participial or verbal-noun form of mourn, meaning to grieve, sorrow, lament, weep, or express distress. Sense 2: To show the effects of ruin and sorrow.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

organ

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A musical instrument of pipes sounded by wind.

Meaning drawn from: Direct Scripture definition · KJV context and cross-references · Webster 1828

COMBINED MEANING

weep

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To shed tears or lament in grief, sorrow, compassion, repentance, joy, or other deep feeling.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references

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25Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

26When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.

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27My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

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

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29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls.

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30My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.

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31My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

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