Job 30:25
Have I not wept for those in trouble? Has my soul not grieved for the needy?
BSB
ASV
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?
KJV
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?
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?
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.
1834–1892
IN ENDEAVORING TO JUSTIFY the ways of God, Job's three friends came to the harsh conclusion that he would not have been so severely afflicted if he had not been a very great sinner. Among other accusations against the afflicted patriarch, Eliphaz the Temanite had the cruelty to lay this at his door, "Thou hast not given water to the weary to drink, and thou hast withholden bread from the hungry."
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Romans 12:15Rejoice with those who rejoice; weep with those who weep.
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If one part suffers, every part suffers with it; if one part is honored, every part rejoices with it.
Remember those in prison as if you were bound with them, and those who are mistreated as if you were suffering with them.
Yet when they were ill, I put on sackcloth; I humbled myself with fasting, but my prayers returned unanswered.
When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who had come with her also weeping, He was deeply moved in spirit and troubled.
Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown her great mercy, and they rejoiced with her.
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Proverbs 17:5He who mocks the poor insults their Maker; whoever gloats over calamity will not go unpunished.
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Whoever oppresses the poor taunts their Maker, but whoever is kind to the needy honors Him.
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Proverbs 28:8He who increases his wealth by interest and usury lays it up for one who is kind to the poor.
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Though he heaps up silver like dust and piles up a wardrobe like clay,
A good man leaves an inheritance to his children’s children, but the sinner’s wealth is passed to the righteous.