Job 30:28 (BSB)
I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.
Commentary on Job 30:28
- Matthew Henry (Presbyterian), Matthew Henry's Complete Commentary on Job 30:15-31: In this second part of Job's complaint, which is very bitter, and has a great many sorrowful accents in it, we may observe a great deal that he complains of and some little that he comforts himself with. I. Here is much that he complains of. 1. In general, it was a day of great affliction and sorrow. (1.) Affliction seized him, and surprised him.
- John Gill (Reformed Baptist), Exposition of the Old and New Testaments on Job 30:28: I went mourning without the sun,.... So overwhelmed with grief, that he refused to have any comfort from, or any advantage by the sun; hence Mr. Broughton renders it, "out of the sun"; he did not choose to walk in the sunshine, but out of it, to indulge his grief and sorrow the more; or he went in black attire, and wrapped and covered himself...
- Jamieson-Fausset-Brown (Reformed), Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible on Job 30:28: mourning--rather, I move about blackened, though not by the sun; that is, whereas many are blackened by the sun, I am, by the heat of God's wrath (so "boiled," Job 30:27); the elephantiasis covering me with blackness of skin (Job 30:30), as with the garb of mourning (Jer 14:2). This striking enigmatic form of Hebrew expression occurs, Isa 29:9.
- Geneva Bible Notes (Reformed), Geneva Bible Study Notes on Job 30:28: I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation. (s) Not delighting in any worldly thing, no not so much as in the use of the sun. (t) Lamenting them that were in affliction and moving others to pity them.