Job 30:27
My inner parts have boiled without any rest, the days of affliction have prevented me.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
In Context
26I expected good things, and evils are come upon me: I waited for light, and darkness broke out.
28I went mourning without indignation; I rose up, and cried in the crowd.
Cross References
Psalms 22:4But thou dwellest in the holy place, the praise of Israel.
Jeremiah 4:19My bowels, my bowels are in pain, the senses of my heart are troubled within me, I will not hold my peace, for my soul hath heard the sound of the trumpet, the cry of battle.
Lamentations 1:20Res. Behold, O Lord, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled: my heart is turned within me, for I am full of bitterness: abroad the sword destroyeth, and at home there is death alike.
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 →