Job 7:4
If I lie down, I say, When shall I rise up, and the darkness be gone? and I am full of tossings until the dawn.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and suppurates.
Cross References
Job 7:13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
Job 30:17The night pierceth through my bones [and detacheth them] from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:
Psalms 77:4Thou holdest open mine eyelids; I am full of disquiet and cannot speak.
Psalms 130:6My soul [waiteth] for the Lord more than the watchers [wait] for the morning, [more than] the watchers 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 →