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"Now my soul is poured out within me. Days of affliction have taken hold on me.
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A Soul Poured Out
Commentators explain that the phrase "my soul is poured out" is a powerful metaphor for being completely dissolved in grief. It signifies a loss of all firmness, a heart that 'melts away like water,' and a feeling that one's very life force is draining away in the face of overwhelming affliction.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
And now my soul is poured out upon me - So in Psalms 42:4, “I pour out my soul in me.” We say that one is dissolved in gri…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And now my soul is poured out upon me Either in prayer to God for help and deliverance; or rather he was dissolved a…
Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin that, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join wit…
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13th Century
Catholic
After listing the many prosperous things he had enjoyed in the past, Job now lists the adversities he was suffering. He begins by showing that, in …
