Job 7:4

As soon as I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? yet he lengtheneth out the evening, and I am wearied with tossings until the breeze of twilight.

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

In The King James Version

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, have I been made to inherit months of calamity, and, nights of weariness, have been appointed me.

5My flesh is clothed with worms and a coating of dust, My skin, hath hardened, and then run afresh:

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Cross References

Job 7:13When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall help to carry my complaint,

Job 30:17Night, boreth, my bones, all over me,—and, my sinews, find no rest;

Psalms 77:4Thou hast held, watching, mine eyes, I was driven to and fro, and could not speak;

Psalms 130:6I have hoped, O my soul, for My Lord, more than they who watch for the morning, 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 →

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