Job 30:16
And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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
17In the night my bones are pierced, and fall from me, and my sinews take no rest.
Cross References
Job 3:24For my sighing cometh instead of my food, and my roarings are poured out like water.
Psalms 22:15(22-16) My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue cleaveth to my throat; and Thou layest me in the dust of death.
Psalms 42:4(42-5) These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I passed on 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 →