Job 30:27 · KJV
“My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.”
— Job 30:27
When I looked for good, then evil came {unto me}: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, {and} I cried in the congregation.
Job 30 — Context
Did not I weep for him that was in trouble? was {not} my soul grieved for the poor? {in trouble: Heb. hard of day?}
26When I looked for good, then evil came {unto me}: and when I waited for light, there came darkness.
27My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
28I went mourning without the sun: I stood up, {and} I cried in the congregation.
29I am a brother to dragons, and a companion to owls. {owls: or, ostriches}
Cross References
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. {swoon: or, faint}
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. {my very...: Heb. the walls of my heart}
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. {are...: Heb. sound}
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.