Job 30:26-31

EasyEnglish Bible

²⁶ But when I hoped for good things to happen,
    trouble came instead.
When I looked for light to shine on me,
    everything became dark.
²⁷ I hurt inside me all the time.
    Every day I suffer from pain.
²⁸ Illness has caused my skin to become black.
    It is not the sun that has made that happen.
I stand up in the public meeting place
    and I call aloud for help.
²⁹ I have become like the jackals and the ostriches.
    My sad voice sounds like them.
³⁰ My skin has become black,
    and bits of skin fall off.
    My body is hot with fever.^[a]
31 Now, when I make music with my harp,
    I only sing funeral songs.
When I make music with my flute,
    I do it for people who are weeping.’