Job 30:27
My feelings are strongly moved, and give me no rest; days of trouble have overtaken me.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
In Context
26For I was looking for good, and evil came; I was waiting for light, and it became dark.
28I go about in dark clothing, uncomforted; I get up in the public place, crying out for help.
Cross References
Psalms 22:4\22:3\But you are holy, O you who are seated among the praises of Israel.
Jeremiah 4:19My soul, my soul! I am pained to my inmost heart; my heart is troubled in me; I am not able to be quiet, because the sound of the horn, the note of war, has come to my ears.
Lamentations 1:20See, O Lord, for I am in trouble; the inmost parts of my body are deeply moved; my heart is turned in me; for I have been uncontrolled: outside the children are put to the sword, and in the house there is death.
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 →