Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
mourning—rather, I move about blackened, though not by the sun; that is, whereas many are blackened by the sun, I am, by the heat of God's wrath (so "boiled," Job 30:27); the elephantiasis covering me with blackness of skin (Job 30:30), as with the garb of mourning (Jeremiah 14:2). This striking enigmatic form of Hebrew expression occurs, Isaiah 29:9.
stood up—as an innocent man crying for justice in an assembled court (Job 30:20).
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