Job 7:4
When I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise, and the night be gone?’ I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
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In Context
3so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust. My skin closes up, and breaks out afresh.
Cross References
Job 7:13When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’
Job 30:17In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
Psalms 77:4You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.
Psalms 130:6My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning, 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 →