Job 7:4
If I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of restlessness until the dawning of the day.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
3So am I made to possess months of affliction, And wearisome nights are appointed for me.
5My flesh is clothed with worms, and clods of dust; My skin is broken and become loathsome.
Cross References
Job 7:13When I say, My bed shall relieve me, My couch shall ease my complaint,
Job 30:17By night my bones are pierced; they are torn from me, And my gnawers take no rest.
Psalms 77:4Thou keepest mine eyelids from closing; I am distressed, so that I cannot speak!
Psalms 130:6My soul waiteth for the LORD More than they who watch for the morning; Yea, more than they who watch 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 →