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Job 7:4

If I shall sleep, I shall say, When shall I rise? and again I shall abide the eventide, and I shall be full-filled with sorrows unto darknesses come (or and I shall be filled full with sorrow until the darknesses come).

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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 I have had void months (or so I have had empty months), and I have numbered travailous nights to me.

5My flesh is clothed with rot, and filths of dust; my skin dried up, and is drawn together, (or my skin is dried up, and is altogether drawn, or and my skin is covered with running sores).

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Cross References

Job 7:13If I shall say, My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved, or quieted, speaking with me in my bed; (If I shall say, My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved, or quieted, talking to myself in my bed;)

Job 30:17In [the] night my bone is pierced with sorrows; and they, that eat me (or who eat me), sleep not.

Psalms 77:4Mine eyes before took wakings; I was troubled, and I spake not. (My eyes opened in the morning; I was troubled, and I did not speak.)

Psalms 130:6my soul hoped in the Lord. From the morrowtide keeping till to the night; (My soul waiteth for the Lord, more eagerly than those who wait for the morning light; yea, more eagerly than those who stand guard, or be on watch, until the morning light.)

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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