Job 30:31

31 Hierom is mijn harp tot een rouwklage geworden, en mijn orgel tot een stem der wenenden.

Job 30:31 Meaning and Commentary

Job 30:31

My harp also is [turned] to mourning
Which he used, as David, either in religious worship, expressing praise to God thereby, or for his recreation in an innocent way; but now it was laid aside, and, instead of it, nothing was heard from him, or in his house, but the voice of mourning:

and my organ into the voice of them that weep;
another instrument of music, which had its name from the pleasantness of its sound, and was of early use, being first invented by Jubal, ( Genesis 4:21 ) ; but not that we now so call, which is of late invention: those instruments which Job might have and use, both in a civil and in a religious way, were now, through afflictions, become useless to him, and neglected by him; or these expressions in general may signify, that, instead of mirth and joy he was wont to have, there were nothing now to be heard but lamentation and woe; see ( Lamentations 5:15 ) ( Amos 8:10 ) .

Job 30:31 In-Context

29 Ik ben den draken een broeder geworden, en een metgezel der jonge struisen.

30 Mijn huid is zwart geworden over mij, en mijn gebeente is ontstoken van dorrigheid.

31 Hierom is mijn harp tot een rouwklage geworden, en mijn orgel tot een stem der wenenden.