Job 30:27
My bowels heave, and rest not: the days of affliction have overcome me.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
In Context
26That I hoped for good, but there came evil; and I waited for light, and there came darkness!
28I walk about mournfully without sunlight: when I rise up, in the assembly, I cry with pain.
Cross References
Psalms 22:4(22:5) In thee did our fathers trust: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
Jeremiah 4:19My bowels, my bowels! I am shaken, at the very chambers of my heart; my heart beateth tumultuously in me; I cannot remain silent; because the sound of the cornet hast thou heard, O my soul, the alarm of war.
Lamentations 1:20See, O Lord! how I am in distress; my bowels are heated; my heart is turned round within me; because I have grievously rebelled: abroad bereaveth the sword, at home, like the pestilence.
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 →