Job 7:4
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.
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 is broken, and become loathsome.
Cross References
Job 7:13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
Job 30:17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
Psalms 77:4Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Psalms 130:6My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that 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 →