The Meaning of Job 30:25 Explained

Job 30:25

KJV: Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was not my soul grieved for the poor?

YLT: Did not I weep for him whose day is hard? Grieved hath my soul for the needy.

Darby: Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy?

ASV: Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? Was not my soul grieved for the needy?

KJV Reverse Interlinear

Did not I weep  for him that was in trouble?  was [not] my soul  grieved  for the poor? 

What does Job 30:25 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Job 30

1  Job's honor is turned into extreme contempt
15  and his prosperity into calamity

What do the individual words in Job 30:25 mean?

Lo not have I wept for him who was in trouble Has [not] grieved my soul for the poor
אִם־ לֹ֣א בָ֭כִיתִי לִקְשֵׁה־ ؟ י֑וֹם עָֽגְמָ֥ה נַ֝פְשִׁ֗י ؟ לָאֶבְיֽוֹן

אִם־  Lo 
Parse: Conjunction
Root: אִם  
Sense: if.
בָ֭כִיתִי  have  I  wept 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, first person common singular
Root: בָּכָה  
Sense: to weep, bewail, cry, shed tears.
؟ י֑וֹם  him  who  was  in  trouble 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: יׄום 
Sense: day, time, year.
עָֽגְמָ֥ה  Has  [not]  grieved 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Perfect, third person feminine singular
Root: עָגַם  
Sense: (Qal) to be grieved.
נַ֝פְשִׁ֗י  my  soul 
Parse: Noun, feminine singular construct, first person common singular
Root: נֶפֶשׁ  
Sense: soul, self, life, creature, person, appetite, mind, living being, desire, emotion, passion.
؟ לָאֶבְיֽוֹן  for  the  poor 
Parse: Preposition-l, Article, Adjective, masculine singular
Root: אֶבְיׄון  
Sense: in want, needy, chiefly poor, needy person.