Job 30:25

“Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? etc.] In outward trouble, whether personal in his own body, or in his family, or in his worldly affairs, or from wicked men, the men of the world; or in inward trouble, in soul trouble, on account of indwelling sin, the breakings forth of it, the lowness of grace, as to exercise, the hidings of God’s face, and the temptations of Satan: or “for him that is hard of day” f1112; with whom times are hard, the days are evil, with respect either to things temporal or spiritual; now Job had a sympathizing heart with such persons; he wept with them that wept; his bowels yearned towards them; he felt their sufferings and their sorrows, which is a Godlike…”

“May I not be allowed to complain of my calamity, and beg relief, seeing that I myself sympathized with those "in trouble" (literally, "hard of day"; those who had a hard time of it).”

“Did not I weep ... - Job here appeals to his former life, and says that it had been a characteristic of his life to manifest compassion to the afflicted and the poor. His object in doing this is, evidently, to show how remarkable it was that he was so much afflicted. “Did I deserve,” the sense is, “such a hard lot? Has it been brought on me by my own fault, or as a punishment for a life where no compassion was shown to others?” So far from it, he says, that his whole life had been distinguished for tender compassion for those in distress and want. In trouble - Margin, as in Hebrew, hard of day. So we say, “a man has a hard time of it,” or has a hard lot. return to 'Top of Page'”

“Did not I - Have I now judgment without mercy, because I afforded no mercy to others in misery? No; my conscience acquits me from this inhumanity: I did mourn over others in their miseries. Job 30:26”

“Did not I: Psa 35:13, Psa 35:14; Jer 13:17, Jer 18:20; Luk 19:41; Joh 11:35; Rom 12:15 in trouble: Heb. hard of day was: Job 31:16-21; Psa 12:1; Pro 14:21, Pro 14:31, Pro 17:5, Pro 19:17, Pro 28:8; Isa 58:7, Isa 58:8; Dan 4:27; Co2 9:9 Job 30:26”