The Hebrew adjective agem means sad, sorrowful, or gloomy. It appears once in Job 30:25, where Job reflects on his compassion for those who were troubled and in mourning.
Job's self-defense in chapter 30 includes his claim to have wept for those who were "sorrowful" (agem). Job's empathy — his tears for the troubled, his mourning with the mourning — becomes part of his moral witness before God. This single appearance of the word underscores a profound biblical principle: the righteous man feels deeply the sufferings of others. Jesus, weeping at Lazarus's tomb (John 11:35), is the ultimate embodiment of this compassionate sorrow.