Job 30:27

Job 30:27 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
• New International Version (NIV)The churning inside me never stops; days of suffering confront me.
• English Standard Version (ESV)My inward parts are in turmoil and never still; days of affliction come to meet me.
• New King James Version (NKJV)My heart is in turmoil and cannot rest; Days of affliction confront me.

Context of Job 30:27

25Did not I weep for him whose days were hard? was not my soul grieved for the needy? 26For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness. My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me. 28I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation. 29I am become a brother to jackals, and a companion of ostriches.

Job 30:27 word by word

מֵעַ֖י רֻתְּח֥וּ וְלֹא־דָ֗מּוּ קִדְּמֻ֥נִי יְמֵי־עֹֽנִי׃Read the interlinear

• bowelsמֵעֶהmê‛eh · bellyH4578
• daysיוֹםyôm · dayH3117
• confrontedקָדַםqâdam · to meetH6923

Cross-references for Job 30:27

• Psalms 22:4Our fathers confided in thee: they confided, and thou didst deliver them.
• Jeremiah 4:19My bowels! my bowels! I am in travail! [Oh,] the walls of my heart! My heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace: for thou hearest, my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the clamour of war.
• Jeremiah 31:20Is Ephraim a dear son unto me? is he a child of delights? For whilst I have been speaking against him, I do constantly remember him still. Therefore my bowels are troubled for him: I will certainly have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah.
• Lamentations 1:20See, Jehovah, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled; my heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled: without, the sword hath bereaved [me], within, it is as death.
• Lamentations 2:11Mine eyes are consumed with tears, my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the ruin of the daughter of my people; because infant and suckling swoon in the streets of the city.

Commentaries on Job 30:27

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 27My bowels boiled - This alludes to the strong commotion in the bowels which every humane person feels at the sight of one in misery.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 27My bowels boiled - Or rather, My bowels boil - for he refers to his present circumstances, and not to the past. It is clear that by this phrase he designs to describe deep affliction. The bowels, in the Scriptures, are represented as the seat of the affections. By this is meant the upper bowels, or the region of the heart and the lungs. The reason is, that deep emotions of the mind are felt there. The heart beats quick; or it is heavy and pained; or it…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-31Verses 15-31 Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin which did, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join with outward calamities, the soul is hurried as in a tempest, and is filled with confusion. But woe be to those who really have God for an enemy! Compared with the awful state of ungodly men, what are all outward, or even inward temporal afflictions? There is something with which Job comforts…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-31Job compares his past happiness, honor, and wealth with his current loss of social dignity and divine friendship (chapters 29 and 30). He ends his speech with broad vows of innocence (chapter 31).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 2727. bowels--regarded as the seat of deep feeling (Is 16:11). boiled--violently heated and agitated. prevented--Old English for "unexpectedly came upon" me, "surprised" me.Read the comment

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Commentaries on Job 30

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary