Job 30:16
And now my life is ebbing away; every day despair grips me.
Free Bible 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 overcome me; my honor is blown away by the wind; my salvation vanishes like a cloud.
17At night my bones are in agony; the pain gnaws at me and never stops.
Cross References
Job 3:24My groans are the bread I eat; my raging tears are the water I drink.
Psalms 22:15My strength has dried up like a piece of broken pottery. My tongue is stuck to the roof of my mouth. You're burying me as if I'm already dead.
Psalms 42:4I am crushed as I remember how I walked with the crowds, leading them in a procession to the house of God, with shouts of joy and songs of thanks among the worshipers at the festival.
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 →