God’s Word Translation
Job 30:27
27My insides are churning and won’t calm down. Days of misery are ahead of me.
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
25Didn’t I cry for the person whose days were difficult? Didn’t my soul grieve for the poor? 26When I waited for good, evil came. When I looked for light, darkness came. My insides are churning and won’t calm down. Days of misery are ahead of me. 28I walk in the dark without the sun. I stand up in public and call for help. 29I’m a brother to jackals and a companion of ostriches.
Read all of Job 30Job 30:27 word by word
מֵעַ֖י רֻתְּח֥וּ וְלֹא־דָ֗מּוּ קִדְּמֻ֥נִי יְמֵי־עֹֽנִי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 30:27
- Psalms 22:4Our ancestors trusted you. They trusted, and you rescued them.
- Jeremiah 4:19My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain. My heart is beating wildly! My heart is pounding! I can’t keep quiet because I hear a ram’s horn sounding the alarm for war.
- Jeremiah 31:20Is Ephraim my dear son? Is he a pleasant child? Even though I have often spoken against him, I still think fondly of him. That is why my heart longs for him, and I will certainly have compassion on him,” declares the Lord.
- Lamentations 1:20“O Lord, see the distress I’m in! My stomach is churning. My heart is pounding because I’ve been very bitter. In the streets swords kill my children. Inside the houses it’s like death.
- Lamentations 2:11My eyes are worn out with tears. My stomach is churning. My heart is poured out on the ground because of the destruction of my people. Little children and infants faint in the city streets.
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
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