Job 30:27
My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
In Context
26For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness.
28I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation.
Cross References
Psalms 22:4Our fathers confided in thee: they confided, and thou didst deliver them.
Jeremiah 4:19My bowels! my bowels! I am in travail! [Oh,] the walls of my heart! My heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace: for thou hearest, my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the clamour of war.
Lamentations 1:20See, Jehovah, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled; my heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled: without, the sword hath bereaved [me], within, it is as 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 →