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 with it,
that he might not see the sun, or receive any relief by it: or "I
go black, [but] not by the sun" F17; his face and his skin were
black, but not through the sun looking upon him and discolouring
him, as in ( Song of
Solomon 1:6 ) ; but through the force of his disease, which
had changed his complexion, and made him as black as a Kedarene,
or those that dwell in the tents of Kedar, ( Song of
Solomon 1:5 ) ; and he also walked without the sun of
righteousness arising on him, with healing in his wings, which
was worst of all:
I stood up, [and] I cried in the congregation:
either in the congregation of the saints met together for
religious worship, where he cried unto God for help and
deliverance, and for the light of his countenance, ( Job 30:20 ) ; or such was
the extreme anguish of his soul, that when a multitude of people
got about him to see him in his distressed condition, he could
not contain himself, but burst out before them in crying and
tears, though he knew it was unbecoming a man of his age and
character; or he could not content himself to stay within doors
and soothe his grief, but must go abroad and in public, and there
expressed with strong cries and tears his miserable condition.
F17 (hmx alb) "non propter solem", Vatablus; "non a sole", Junius & Tremellius, Drusius, Mercerus; "non ob solem", Piscator.