Job 30:30
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Job 30:30 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Job 30:30 is a verse from the book of Job in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Job 30:30 — KJV
“My skin is black upon me, and my bones are burned with heat.”
— Job 30:30 (KJV)
Job 30:30 in Context — About the Book of Job
Job is the Bible's deepest wrestle with undeserved suffering. A blameless man loses everything, sits in ashes, and refuses easy answers — from his friends or himself. God answers from the whirlwind not with explanations but with Himself, and Job's fortunes are restored double.
Cross-References for Job 30:30
“Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: their skin cleaveth to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. blacker...: Heb. darker than blackness”
Shares key themes with Job 30:30: skin, black, bones
“And if the priest look on the plague of the scall, and, behold, it be not in sight deeper than the skin, and that there is no black hair in it; then the priest shall shut up him that hath the plague of the scall seven days:”
Shares key themes with Job 30:30: skin, black
“Is it not wheat harvest to day? I will call unto the LORD, and he shall send thunder and rain; that ye may perceive and see that your wickedness is great, which ye have done in the sight of the LORD, in asking you a king.”
Shares key themes with Job 30:30: skin, heat
“And as Josiah turned himself, he spied the sepulchres that were there in the mount, and sent, and took the bones out of the sepulchres, and burned them upon the altar, and polluted it, according to the word of the LORD which the man of God proclaimed, who proclaimed these words.”
Shares key themes with Job 30:30: bones, burned
“And he slew all the priests of the high places that were there upon the altars, and burned men's bones upon them, and returned to Jerusalem. slew: or, sacrificed”
Shares key themes with Job 30:30: bones, burned
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