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My heart is troubled, and doesn`t rest. Days of affliction have come on me.
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"Boiling" with Grief
Commentators explain that the phrase "my bowels boiled" is a powerful Hebrew expression for profound inner turmoil. It describes a deep, restless mental and emotional anguish that feels like churning, boiling water. This visceral language conveys a level of suffering far beyond simple sadness, reflecting the all-consuming nature of Job's pain.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
My bowels boiled - Or rather, My bowels boil - because he refers to his present circumstances, and not to the past. It is clear tha…
19th Century
Anglican
My bowels boiled. —The sense is better expressed by the present, My bowels boil, and rest not. Days of affliction hav…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
My bowels boiled, and rested not All contained within him, his heart, lungs, and liver, in a literal sense, through …
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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…
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 …