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Job 30:16

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Job’s Despondency

30:16“And now my soul pours itself out within me;36

days of suffering take hold of me.

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Footnotes

  1. 36 This line can either mean that Job is wasting away (i.e., his life is being poured out), or it can mean that he is grieving. The second half of the verse gives the subordinate clause of condition for this.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

“And now my soul is poured out within me;

days of affliction have taken hold of me.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“And now my life ebbs away;

days of suffering grip me.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Now my life is poured out before me,

and days of suffering have seized me.

NLTNew Living Translation

“And now my life seeps away.

Depression haunts my days.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“And now my life is poured out onto me;

days of misery have taken hold of me.

KJV 1900King James Version

And now my soul is poured out upon me;

The days of affliction have taken hold upon me.