Bible verse
I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
Job 30:28 · BSB
The verses around it, from Job 30.
24 Yet no one stretches out his hand to a ruined man when he cries for help in his distress.
25 Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
26 But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.
27 I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.
28 I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
29 I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.
30 My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.
31 My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.
KJV
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation.
ASV
I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
ERV
I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
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