“My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.”
My heart is in turmoil and never quiet; days of affliction come to meet me, expressing the internal chaos and the meeting of affliction as if it had active intention toward Job. The turmoil and lack of quiet suggest continuous psychological disturbance. The days of affliction coming to meet Job personify suffering as an active agent seeking him. The verse emphasizes both the internal and external dimensions of suffering.
Church Fathers on Job 30:27
My bowels boiled, and rested not. Since for ‘the bowels’ of Holy Church ‘to boil’ is for her to endure in the fierceness of persecution, these very persons too, whom she had before in the love of the faith carried as ‘bowels.’ Which same first acquainting themselves with her secrets, in the same proportion as they know where she suffers the greatest pain, to so much the worse degree never rest from the afflicting of her; which persons however even in the time of her peace she…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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