Job 30:27
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
Job 30:27 in other translations
| BSB | I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me. |
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| WEB | My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. Days of affliction have come on me. |
| ASV | My heart is troubled, and resteth not; Days of affliction are come upon me. |
| YLT | My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction. |
| DARBY | My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me. |
| BBE | My feelings are strongly moved, and give me no rest; days of trouble have overtaken me. |
| Webster | My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction came upon me. |
What does Job 30:27 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Adam Clarke's Commentary
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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 30:15-31
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…
Job 30:27 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 30:27
- Lamentations 2:11
Mine eyes do fail with tears, my bowels are troubled, my liver is poured upon the earth, for the destruction of the daughter of my people; because the children and the sucklings swoon in the streets of the city.
- Jeremiah 31:20
Is Ephraim my dear son? is he a pleasant child? for since I spake against him, I do earnestly remember him still: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercy upon him, saith the Lord.
- Lamentations 1:20
Behold, O Lord; for I am in distress: my bowels are troubled; mine heart is turned within me; for I have grievously rebelled: abroad the sword bereaveth, at home there is as death.
- Psalms 22:4
Our fathers trusted in thee: they trusted, and thou didst deliver them.
- Jeremiah 4:19
My bowels, my bowels! I am pained at my very heart; my heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace, because thou hast heard, O my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the alarm of war.
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Context
- Job 30:26
When I looked for good, then evil came unto me: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
- Job 30:27
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
- Job 30:28
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, and I cried in the congregation.
Job 30:27 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Mis entrañas hierven, y no reposan; días de aflicción me han sobrecogido. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Mes entrailles bouillonnent et ne cessent pas; les jours d’affliction sont venus sur moi. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Meine Eingeweide wallen und ruhen nicht; Tage des Elends sind mir entgegengetreten. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Interiora mea efferbuerunt absque ulla requie: prævenerunt me dies afflictionis. |