Job 7:4
If I lay down, then I have said, When do I rise, || And evening has been measured? And I have been full of tossings until dawn.
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In Context
3So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, || And they numbered nights of misery to me.
Cross References
Job 7:13When I said, My bed comforts me, || In my talking He takes away my couch.
Job 30:17[At] night my bone has been pierced in me, || And my gnawing [pain] does not lie down.
Psalms 77:4You have taken hold of the watches of my eyes, || I have been moved, and I do not speak.
Psalms 130:6My soul [is] for the Lord, || More than those watching for morning, || Watching for 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 →