Matthew Poole and continuators on Job 30:28

28. I went mourning without the Sun : I stood up , and I cried in the congregation .

Or, I walked hither and thither as I could. Or, I converse or appear among others.

Spending my days in mourning without any Sun-light or comfort; or so oppressed with sadness, that I did not care nor desire to see the light of the Sun. Heb. black not by the Sun. My very Countenance is changed and become black, but not by the Sun, which makes many other persons black; Cant. 1. 5. 6. but by the force of my Disease and deep Melancholy which oft-times makes a man's Visage black and dismal. See Psalm 119. 83. Lam. 5. 10. And this he repeats in plainer terms, v. 30. as an eminent token of his excessive grief and misery.

Either because my Disease and pain made me weary of other postures: Or that others might take notice of me and be moved with pity towards me.

With a loud and d[illegible: 1+ letters]eful clamour through great and sudden anguish

Where prudence and modesty taught me to forbear it, if extream necessity and misery had not forced me to it.

Marginal references: Psal. 38. 6. & 42. 9. & 43. 2.