Job 30:16

And now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.

In Context

15Terrors are turned upon me. They chase my honor as the wind, and my welfare is passed away as a cloud.

17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.

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Cross References

Job 3:24For my sighing comes before I eat, and my groanings are poured out like water.

Psalms 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue clings to my jaws, and thou have brought me into the dust of death.

Psalms 42:4These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I went with the throng, and led them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping holyday.

Matthew Henry on Job 30:16-31

Job Complains of His Affliction. ( b. c. 1520.) 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. 16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. 18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. 20 I cry unto thee,… Read the whole commentary →

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