Job 30:16
“Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold of me.
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
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 have turned on me. They chase my honour as the wind. My welfare has passed away as a cloud.
17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
Cross References
Job 3:24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water.
Psalms 22:15My strength is dried up like a potsherd. My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth. You have brought me into the dust of death.
Psalms 42:4These things I remember, and pour out my soul within me, how I used to go with the crowd, and led them to God’s house, with the voice of joy and praise, a multitude keeping a holy day.
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 →