28 I went mourning [a]without sun: I stood up in the Congregation [b]and cried.

29 I am a brother to the [c]Dragons, and a companion to the Ostriches.

30 My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burnt with [d]heat.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 30:28 Not delighting in any worldly thing, no not so much as in the use of the Sun.
  2. Job 30:28 Lamenting them that were in affliction, and moving others to pity them.
  3. Job 30:29 I am like the wild beasts that desire most solitary places.
  4. Job 30:30 With the heat of affliction.

28 I go about blackened,(A) but not by the sun;
    I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.(B)
29 I have become a brother of jackals,(C)
    a companion of owls.(D)
30 My skin grows black(E) and peels;(F)
    my body burns with fever.(G)

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