Job 30:27 “I am churning within and cannot rest; days of affliction confront me.”

Job 30:27

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

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.

World English Bible

My heart is troubled, and doesn’t rest. Days of affliction have come on me.

American Standard Version

My heart is troubled, and resteth not; Days of affliction are come upon me.

Geneva Bible 1599

My bowels did boyle without rest: for the dayes of affliction are come vpon me.

Darby Translation

My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me.

Young's Literal Translation

My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.

Bible in Basic English

My feelings are strongly moved, and give me no rest; days of trouble have overtaken me.

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Cross references

“My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.”

Lamentations 2:11 Psalm 22:4 Jeremiah 4:19 Jeremiah 31:20 Lamentations 1:20

Lamentations 2:11 · BSB

My eyes fail from weeping; I am churning within. My heart is poured out in grief over the destruction of the daughter of my people, because children and infants faint in the streets of the city.

Psalm 22:4 · BSB

In You our fathers trusted; they trusted and You delivered them.

Jeremiah 4:19 · BSB

My anguish, my anguish! I writhe in pain! Oh, the pain in my chest! My heart pounds within me; I cannot be silent. For I have heard the sound of the horn, the alarm of battle.

Jeremiah 31:20 · BSB

Is not Ephraim a precious son to Me, a delightful child? Though I often speak against him, I still remember him. Therefore My heart yearns for him; I have great compassion for him,” declares the LORD.

Lamentations 1:20 · BSB

See, O LORD, how distressed I am! I am churning within; my heart is pounding within me, for I have been most rebellious. Outside, the sword bereaves; inside, there is death.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

26But when I hoped for good, evil came; when I looked for light, darkness fell.

28I go about blackened, but not by the sun. I stand up in the assembly and cry for help.

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