Job 30:27
My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
In Context
26When good I expected, then cometh evil, And I wait for light, and darkness cometh.
28Mourning I have gone without the sun, I have risen, in an assembly I cry.
Cross References
Psalms 22:4In Thee did our fathers trust — they trusted, And Thou dost deliver them.
Jeremiah 4:19My bowels, my bowels! I am pained [at] the walls of my heart, Make a noise for me doth My heart, I am not silent, For the voice of a trumpet I have heard, O my soul — a shout of battle!
Lamentations 1:20See, O Jehovah, for distress [is] to me, My bowels have been troubled, Turned hath been my heart in my midst, For I have greatly provoked, From without bereaved hath the sword, In the house [it is] as death.
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 →