Bible in Basic English
"Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?"
— Job 30:25, Bible in Basic English
“Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?”
“Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy? ”
“Have I not wept for the unfortunate? Was not my soul grieved for the poor?”
“I wept heretofore for him that was afflicted, and my soul had compassion on the poor.”
“Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?”
Lifting me up, you make me go on the wings of the wind; I am broken up by the storm.
For I am certain that you will send me back to death, and to the meeting-place ordered for all living.
Has not my hand been stretched out in help to the poor? have I not been a saviour to him in his trouble?
Have I not been weeping for the crushed? and was not my soul sad for him who was in need?
For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
My feelings are strongly moved, and give me no rest; days of trouble have overtaken me.
I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.