Job 30:24-31 - Job Says: I Am Being Punished By God

²⁴ Only, against a heap of ruins, will one not thrust a hand! Surely, when one is in calamity - for that very reason, is there an outcry for help. ²⁵ Verily I wept, for him whose lot was hard, Grieved was my soul, for the needy. ²⁶ Surely, for good, I looked, but there came in evil, And I waited for light, but there came in darkness; ²⁷ I boiled within me, and rested not, There confronted me - days of affliction; ²⁸ In gloom, I walked along, without sun, I arose - in the convocation, I cried out for help; ²⁹ A brother, became I to the brutes that howl, and a companion to the birds that screech: ³⁰ My skin, turned black, and peeled off me, and, my bones, burned with heat: ³¹ Thus is attuned to mourning - my lyre, and my flute, to the noise of them who weep.