Parallel Verses
International Standard Version
"In growing darkness, I walked without sunlight; I stood in the congregation to cry for help.
New American Standard Bible
I stand up in the assembly and
King James Version
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
Holman Bible
I stood in the assembly and cried out for help.
A Conservative Version
I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
American Standard Version
I go mourning without the sun: I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
Amplified
“I go about mourning without comfort [my skin blackened by disease, not by the heat of the sun];
I stand up in the assembly and cry out for help.
Bible in Basic English
I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.
Darby Translation
I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation.
Julia Smith Translation
I went darkened without warmth: I rose up, I shall cry in the convocation.
King James 2000
I went mourning but not in the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I go [about] in mourning garb, [but] not in sunlight; I stand up in the assembly, [and] I cry for help.
Modern King James verseion
I go in mourning with no sun; I stood up and I cried out in the congregation.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Meekly and lowly came I in, yea and without any displeasure; I stood up in the congregation, and communed with them.
NET Bible
I go about blackened, but not by the sun; in the assembly I stand up and cry for help.
New Heart English Bible
I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
The Emphasized Bible
In gloom, I walked along, without sun, I arose - in the convocation, I cried out for help;
Webster
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
World English Bible
I go mourning without the sun. I stand up in the assembly, and cry for help.
Youngs Literal Translation
Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 30:28
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job Says: I Am Being Punished By God
27 I'm boiling mad inside, and I won't remain silent; the time for my affliction to confront me has arrived. 28 "In growing darkness, I walked without sunlight; I stood in the congregation to cry for help. 29 I've become a brother to jackals, and a friend to ostriches.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 38:6
I am bent over and walk about greatly bowed down; all day long I go around mourning.
Psalm 42:9
I will ask God, my Rock, "Why have you forsaken me? Why do I go around mourning under the enemy's oppression?"
Psalm 43:2
Since you are the God who strengthens me, why have you forsaken me? Why do I go around mourning under the enemy's oppression?"
Job 19:7
"Although I cried out "Violence!' I received no answer; I cried for help, but there was no justice.
Isaiah 53:3-4
"He was despised and rejected by others, and a man of sorrows, intimately familiar with suffering; and like one from whom people hide their faces; and we despised him and did not value him.
Lamentations 3:1-3
I am a man familiar with affliction under the rod of God's anger.