Comentario sobre Job 30:25

...whether I did not weep for one who had a difficult time [You] know and recognize whether I was not compassionate and [did not] weep for the poor, who had difficult times, and [whether] my soul [did not] grieve for the needy, that this befell me because of all these.

Job had shown compassion for others, so did he not now deserve some kindness now?²⁰This is the first of a series of rhetorical questions that Job asks in this and the next chapter. They all relate to his virtues and in the Hebrew text they all open with the word אם. They can also be viewed as oaths or affirmations in which Job asserts his virtue, e.g. 'I swear that I wept for those in distress'.