Parallel Verses

Darby Translation

My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me.

New American Standard Bible

I am seething within and cannot relax;
Days of affliction confront me.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

I am churning within and cannot rest;
days of suffering confront me.

International Standard Version

I'm boiling mad inside, and I won't remain silent; the time for my affliction to confront me has arrived.

A Conservative Version

My heart is troubled, and does not rest. Days of affliction have come upon me.

American Standard Version

My heart is troubled, and resteth not; Days of affliction are come upon me.

Amplified


“I am seething within and my heart is troubled and cannot rest;
Days of affliction come to meet me.

Bible in Basic English

My feelings are strongly moved, and give me no rest; days of trouble have overtaken me.

Julia Smith Translation

My bowels boiled, and were not silent: the days of affliction anticipated me.

King James 2000

My heart is in turmoil, and rests not: the days of affliction confront me.

Lexham Expanded Bible

My bowels are in turmoil, and they are not still; days of misery come to confront me.

Modern King James verseion

My bowels boiled, and did not rest; the days of trouble confront me.

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

My bowels seeth within me, and take no rest, for the days of my trouble are come upon me.

NET Bible

My heart is in turmoil unceasingly; the days of my affliction confront me.

New Heart English Bible

My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me.

The Emphasized Bible

I boiled within me, and rested not, There confronted me - days of affliction;

Webster

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

World English Bible

My heart is troubled, and doesn't rest. Days of affliction have come on me.

Youngs Literal Translation

My bowels have boiled, and have not ceased, Gone before me have days of affliction.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
My bowels
מעה 
me`ah 
Usage: 32

רתח 
Rathach 
Usage: 3

and rested
דּמם 
Damam 
Usage: 30

not the days
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

עני 
`oniy 
Usage: 37

קדם 
Qadam 
Usage: 26

References

American

Hastings

Context Readings

Job Says: I Am Being Punished By God

26 For I expected good, and there came evil; and I waited for light, but there came darkness. 27 My bowels well up, and rest not; days of affliction have confronted me. 28 I go about blackened, but not by the sun; I stand up, I cry in the congregation.



Cross References

Lamentations 2:11

Mine eyes are consumed with tears, my bowels are troubled; my liver is poured upon the earth, because of the ruin of the daughter of my people; because infant and suckling swoon in the streets of the city.

Psalm 22:4

Our fathers confided in thee: they confided, and thou didst deliver them.

Jeremiah 4:19

My bowels! my bowels! I am in travail! Oh, the walls of my heart! My heart maketh a noise in me; I cannot hold my peace: for thou hearest, my soul, the sound of the trumpet, the clamour of war.

Jeremiah 31:20

Is Ephraim a dear son unto me? is he a child of delights? For whilst I have been speaking against him, I do constantly remember him still. Therefore my bowels are troubled for him: I will certainly have mercy upon him, saith Jehovah.

Lamentations 1:20

See, Jehovah, for I am in distress, my bowels are troubled; my heart is turned within me, for I have grievously rebelled: without, the sword hath bereaved me, within, it is as death.

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