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Job 30:27
27 My bowels [me`ah] boiled [rathach], and rested [damam] not: the days [yowm] of affliction [`oniy] prevented [qadam] me. KJV-Interlinear
27 'I am seething within, and cannot relax; Days of affliction confront me. NASB
The word for bowels is a reference to the emotions of the person. The word for prevented, means anticipation, or someone or something that waits in anticipation of you and then pounces on you when the time is right.
This is Jobs present condition. This is in the present, not the past and not the future. Under suffering, which is allowed by God, but brought on by things, which follow the pattern of thought of Satan, there is no help.
Without God in ones life, the only result is an overwhelming of ones emotions. Emotions are not a part of the thinking process but a reaction or a response to ones environment or condition. Emotions cannot lift things, cannot think, cannot get things done.
When ones emotions overtake you, then the anxieties, the pressures, the feelings should teach you that you are not and are never in control over the things which the world can throws against you.
Job expresses the emotions of helplessness.
But more than that. These emotions, this condition, which Job is in, was not anticipated by him, but was anticipated by his condition, as though a disease or a disaster has the ability to think or conspire against humanity.
Your best laid plans, regardless of your resources in life, are subject to ambush. No matter how smart, no matter how talented, no matter how rich, no matter how arrogant you are, this world is way ahead of you. In a chess game, it knows the last move, while you are just beginning your first.
Most people of the world will live in poverty or a middle class condition at best. Life will never be what they want. Some people advance to fabulous wealth, and still, in this world, they will discover that life is not going to be what they want. Death, even a disease, overrules everything you can anticipate or prepare for.
And again, the Bible teaches that if you disregard your daily Bible study, you are the fool. The fool for refusing to look at, acknowledge, refusing to accept its warnings.
