Holy Scripture
Job 30:27
A church father on this verse
“My bowels boiled, and rested not. The days of affliction prevented me. Since for 'the bowels' of Holy Church 'to boil' is for her to endure in the fierceness of persecution, these very persons too, whom she had before in the love of the faith carried as 'bowels.' Which same first acquainting themselves with her secret…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
27My belly boiled, and would not cease: The days of poverty prevented me.
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In context
25Yet I wept over every helpless man; I groaned when I saw a man in distress.
26But I, when I waited for good things, Behold, days of evils came the more upon me.
— Job 30:27 —
28I went mourning without restraint: And I have stood and cried out in the assembly.
29I am become a brother of monsters, And a companion of ostriches.