Job 7:4
When I lie down, I say: 'When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 closeth up and breaketh 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 my bones are pierced, and fall from me, and my sinews take no rest.
Psalms 77:4(77-5) Thou holdest fast the lids of mine eyes; I am troubled, and cannot speak.
Psalms 130:6My soul waiteth for the Lord, more than watchmen for the morning; yea, more than 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 →