My bowels boiled, and rested not: the days of affliction prevented me.
The verse stands near the close of the extended discussion between Job and his three friends, in which they condemned him for seeming self-righteousness and he rejected their condemnation as unjust. It belongs to Job's argument about the cause and purpose of human suffering, as the account of a man who knew his integrity yet could not understand God's dealings with him. The word bowels is literal in translation but tropical in meaning, denoting the inmost part of a person as the seat of grief, pity, and affection, and here it expresses inward grief.
The verse stands near the close of the extended discussion between Job and his three friends, in which they condemned him for seeming self-righteousness and he rejected their condemnation as unjust. It belongs to Job's argument about the cause and purpose of human suffering, as the account of a man who knew his integrity yet could not understand God's dealings with him. The word bowels is literal in translation but tropical in meaning, denoting the inmost part of a person as the seat of grief, pity, and affection, and here it expresses inward grief.