Job 30:27

Job’s Prosperity Becomes Calamity · Job 30:15–31
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Translations

Modern
I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.
Traditional
My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
Literal
My bowels have boiled and they do not rest; days of affliction confront me.
Latin
Interiora mea efferbuerunt absque ulla requie: prævenerunt me dies afflictionis.

Original

Hebrew
English
I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.

Notes

Job 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).

Events

Glossary

Book of Job God, Names of

Topics

Bowels of the Sensibilities