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Job 30:27 — King James Version← Study notes

My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.


Job 30:27Hebrew Interlinear

Hebrew · Job 30:277 words
HebrewMeaning
מֵעַ֖/יmēʿay
inward parts mynounH4578
bowels · heart · womb
רֻתְּח֥וּrutəḥw
they have been made to boilverbH7570
וְ/לֹאwəlōʾ
and notconjH3808
before · or else · except · ig ···
דָ֗מּוּdāmw
they have been stillverbH1826
be cut down · forbear · hold peace · quiet self ···
קִדְּמֻ֥/נִיqidəmuniy
they have confronted meverbH6923
) before · disappoint · meet · prevent
יְמֵיyəmēy
days ofnounH3117
always · chronicals · continually · daily ···
עֹֽנִיʿōniy
afflictionnounH6040
trouble
Words are listed top to bottom following the original right-to-left reading order. אֵת (ʾēṯ) is a direct object marker with no English equivalent, shown faded.

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…

Gregory the Great · 6th century · Morals on Job, Book 20 §72
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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