Job 30:16
Good News Translation
Now I am about to die; there is no relief for my suffering.

New Revised Standard Version
“And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction have taken hold of me.

Contemporary English Version
I am sick at heart! Pain has taken its toll.

New American Bible
And now my life ebbs away from me, days of affliction have taken hold of me.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me.

my soul

Psalm 22:14 I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.

Psalm 42:4 These things I remembered, and poured out my soul in me: for I shall go over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even to the house of God: With the voice of joy and praise; the noise of one feasting.

Isaiah 53:12 Therefore will I distribute to him very many, and he shall divide the spoils of the strong, because he hath delivered his soul unto death, and was reputed with the wicked: and he hath borne the sins of many, and hath prayed for the transgressors.

have taken hold

Psalm 40:12 For evils without number have surrounded me; my iniquities have overtaken me, and I was not able to see. They are multiplied above the hairs of my head: and my heart hath forsaken me.

Context
Job's Prosperity Becomes Calamity
15I am brought to nothing: as a wind thou hast taken away my desire: and my prosperity hath passed away like a cloud. 16And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me.17In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.…
Cross References
1 Samuel 1:15
Anna answering, said: Not so, my lord: for I am an exceeding unhappy woman, and have drunk neither wine nor any strong drink, but I have poured out my soul before the Lord.

Job 3:24
Before I eat I sigh: and as overflowing waters, so is my roaring:

Psalm 22:14
I am poured out like water; and all my bones are scattered. My heart is become like wax melting in the midst of my bowels.

Psalm 42:4
These things I remembered, and poured out my soul in me: for I shall go over into the place of the wonderful tabernacle, even to the house of God: With the voice of joy and praise; the noise of one feasting.

Isaiah 53:12
Therefore will I distribute to him very many, and he shall divide the spoils of the strong, because he hath delivered his soul unto death, and was reputed with the wicked: and he hath borne the sins of many, and hath prayed for the transgressors.

Lamentations 2:12
Lamed. They said to their mothers: Where is corn and wine? when they fainted away as the wounded in the streets of the city: when they breathed out their souls in the bosoms of their mothers.

Job 30:15
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