Job 7:4
If 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.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
3So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights.
5My flesh is clothed with rottenness and the filth of dust, my skin is withered and drawn together.
Cross References
Job 7:13If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved speaking with myself on my couch:
Job 30:17In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.
Psalms 77:4I remembered God, and was delighted, and was exercised, and my spirit swooned away.
Psalms 130:6Let them be as grass on the tops of houses: which withered before it be plucked up:
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 →