Job 7:4
When I go to bed I ask, ‘When shall I get up?’ But the night goes on and on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
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In Context
3I've been given months of emptiness and nights of misery.
5My body is covered with maggots and caked in dirt; my skin is cracked, with oozing sores.
Cross References
Job 7:13If I tell myself, ‘I'll feel better if I lie down on my bed,’ or ‘it will help me to lie down on my couch,’
Job 30:17At night my bones are in agony; the pain gnaws at me and never stops.
Psalms 77:4You stop me going to sleep; I'm so upset I can't even talk.
Psalms 130:6I long for the Lord to come, more than watchmen longing for the dawn to come, more than watchmen longing for the dawn to come.
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 →