Job 30:16 - Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Bible Comments

And now my soul is poured out upon me - So in Psalms 42:4, “I pour out my soul in me.” We say that one is dissolved in grief. The language is derived from the fact that the soul in grief seems to lose all firmness or consistence. The Arabs style a fearful person, one who has a watery heart, or whose heart melts away like water. Noyes.

Job 30:16

16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.