Job 30:17

In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

In Context

16And now my soul fadeth within myself, and the days of affliction possess me.

18With the multitude of them my garment is consumed, and they have girded me about, as with the collar of my coat.

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Cross References

Job 7:4If I lie down to sleep, I shall say: When shall arise? and again I shall look for the evening, and shall be filled with sorrows even till darkness.

Psalms 6:2O Lord, rebuke me not in thy indignation, nor chastise me in thy wrath.

Psalms 38:2Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation; nor chastise me in thy wrath.

Matthew Henry on Job 30:16-31

Job Complains of His Affliction. ( b. c. 1520.) 15 Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. 16 And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me. 17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. 18 By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat. 19 He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes. 20 I cry unto thee,… Read the whole commentary →

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