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Job 30:31

GriefDiscouragement and depressionPraise and worship

29 I have become a brother of jackals, a companion of ostriches.

30 My skin grows black and peels, and my bones burn with fever.

My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.
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BSB
My harp is tuned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.
KJV
My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.
WEB
Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
ASV
Therefore is my harp [turned] to mourning, And my pipe into the voice of them that weep.
DARBY
My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of weepers.
BLB
And my harp is changed to mourning, and my flute to the voice of weeping.
ÅB
Og min citar er blitt til sorg, og min fløyte til gråt og klage.
OTB
Slik er min harpe stemt til sorg,
og min fløyte til klagelyd.
B1930
Og min citar er blitt til sorg, og min fløite til gråt og klage.

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