Job 7:4
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossing to and fro to the dawning of the day.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
3so I am made to possess months of misery, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
Cross References
Job 7:13When I say, My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint.
Job 30:17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.
Psalms 77:4Thou have held my eyelids watching. I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Psalms 130:6my soul for LORD more than watchmen for the morning, watchmen for the morning.
Matthew Henry on Job 7:2-7
Job's Reply to Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling? 2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: 3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. 4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day. 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my… Read the whole commentary →