Parallel Verses
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.
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.
International Standard Version
"In growing darkness, I walked without sunlight; I stood in the congregation to cry 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.
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 My bowels seeth within me, and take no rest, for the days of my trouble are come upon me. 28 Meekly and lowly came I in, yea and without any displeasure; I stood up in the congregation, and communed with them. 29 But now I am a companion of dragons, and a fellow of ostriches.
Phrases
Cross References
Psalm 38:6
I am brought into so great trouble and misery, that I go mourning all the day long.
Psalm 42:9
I will say unto God my strength, "Why hast thou forgotten me? Why go I thus heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me?"
Psalm 43:2
For thou art the God of my strength; why hast thou put me from thee? And why go I so heavily, while the enemy oppresseth me?
Job 19:7
Behold: though I cry, yet violence is done unto me. I cannot be heard! Though I complain, there is none to give sentence with me.
Isaiah 53:3-4
He was despised and cast out of men's company; and one that had suffered sorrow, and had experience of infirmity. And we were as one that had hid his face from him.
Lamentations 3:1-3
{Aleph} I am the man, that, through the rod of his wrath, have experience of misery.