Job 7:4

When I lie down, I say to myself, 1 'When will I get up and when will the night be gone?' 1 I am full of tossing to and fro until the day's dawning. 1

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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.

In Context

3so I have been made to endure months of misery; 1 I have been given trouble-filled nights. 1

5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; 1 the sores in my skin harden up and then dissolve and run afresh. 1

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Cross References

Job 7:13When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, 1 and my couch will ease my complaint,' 1

Job 30:17In the night my bones in me are pierced; 1 the pains that gnaw at me take no rest. 1

Psalms 77:4You held my eyes open; 1 I was too troubled to speak. 1

Psalms 130:6My soul waits for the Lord 1 more than watchmen wait for the morning. 1

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 →

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