16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
16 And now my soul H5315 is poured out H8210 upon me; the days H3117 of affliction H6040 have taken hold H270 upon me.
16 And now my soul is poured out within me; Days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
16 And now, in me my soul poureth itself out, Seize me do days of affliction.
16 And now my soul is poured out in me; days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
16 "Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.
16 But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:
I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint: my heart is like wax; it is melted in the midst of my bowels.
When I remember these things, I pour out my soul in me: for I had gone with the multitude, I went with them to the house of God, with the voice of joy and praise, with a multitude that kept holyday.
Therefore will I divide him a portion with the great, and he shall divide the spoil with the strong; because he hath poured out his soul unto death: and he was numbered with the transgressors; and he bare the sin of many, and made intercession for the transgressors.
And Hannah answered and said, No, my lord, I am a woman of a sorrowful spirit: I have drunk neither wine nor strong drink, but have poured out my soul before the LORD.
For my sighing cometh before I eat, and my roarings are poured out like the waters.
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Commentary on Job 30 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 30
It is a melancholy "But now' which this chapter begins with. Adversity is here described as much to the life as prosperity was in the foregoing chapter, and the height of that did but increase the depth of this. God sets the one over-against the other, and so did Job, that his afflictions might appear the more grievous, and consequently his case the more pitiable.
Job 30:1-14
Here Job makes a very large and sad complaint of the great disgrace he had fallen into, from the height of honour and reputation, which was exceedingly grievous and cutting to such an ingenuous spirit as Job's was. Two things he insists upon as greatly aggravating his affliction:-
Job 30:15-31
In this second part of Job's complaint, which is very bitter, and has a great many sorrowful accents in it, we may observe a great deal that he complains of and some little that he comforts himself with.