Job 7:4

Job 7:4 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)When I lie down I think, ‘How long before I get up?’ The night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
• English Standard Version (ESV)When I lie down I say, 'When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.
• New King James Version (NKJV)When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I arise, And the night be ended?’ For I have had my fill of tossing till dawn.

Context of Job 7:4

2As a slave earnestly longs for the shade, And as a hired man eagerly awaits his wages, 3So am I allotted months of futility and suffering, And [long] nights of trouble and misery are appointed to me. When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I arise [and the night be gone]?’ But the night continues, And I am continually tossing until the dawning of day. 5My body is clothed with worms and a crust of dust; My skin is hardened [and broken and loathsome], and [breaks out and] runs. 6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope.

Job 7:4 word by word

אִם־שָׁכַ֗בְתִּי וְאָמַ֗רְתִּי מָתַ֣י אָ֭קוּם וּמִדַּד־עָ֑רֶב וְשָׂבַ֖עְתִּי נְדֻדִ֣ים עֲדֵי־נָֽשֶׁף׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• When I lie downשָׁכַבshâkab · to lie down: lay downH7901
• I sayאָמַר'âmar · to sayH559
• When shall I ariseקוּםqûm · to arise: riseH6965
• and the nightעֶ֫רֶב‛ereb · eveningH6153
• be goneמָדַדmiddad · to extendH4059
• and I am fullשָׂבֵעַώâba‛ ώâbêa‛ · to satisfyH7646
• of tossings to and froנְדוּדnâdûd · tossingH5076
• unto the dawning of the dayנֶ֫שֶׁףnesheph · twilightH5399

Cross-references for Job 7:4

• Job 7:13When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, My couch will ease my complaint,’
• Job 17:12These [thoughts try to] make the night into the day; ‘The light is near,’ they say in the presence of darkness [but they pervert the truth].
• Job 30:17My bones are pierced [with aching] in the night season, And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
• Deuteronomy 28:67In the morning you will say, ‘I wish it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’—because of the dread in your heart with which you tremble, and because of the sight of your eyes which you will see.
• Psalms 6:6I am weary with my groaning; Every night I soak my bed with tears, I drench my couch with my weeping.
• Psalms 77:4You have held my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
• Psalms 130:6My soul waits for the Lord More than the watchmen for the morning; More than the watchmen for the morning.
• Psalms 109:23I am vanishing like a shadow when it lengthens and fades; I am shaken off like the locust.
• Isaiah 54:11“O you afflicted [city], storm-tossed, and not comforted, Listen carefully, I will set your [precious] stones in mortar, And lay your foundations with sapphires.

Commentaries on Job 7:4

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 4When I lie down - I have so little rest, that when I do lie down I long for the return of the light, that I may rise. Nothing can better depict the state of a man under continual afflictions, which afford him no respite, his days and his nights being spent in constant anguish, utterly unable to be in any one posture, so that he is continually changing his position in his bed, finding ease nowhere: thus, as himself expresses it, he is full of tossings.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4When I lie down - I find no comfort and no rest on my bed. My nights are long, and I am impatient to have them passed, and equally so is it with the day. This is a description which all can understand who have been laid on a bed of pain. And the night be gone - Margin, evening be measured. Herder renders this, “the night is irksome to me.” The word rendered night (ערב ‛ereb ) properly means the early part of the night, until it is succeeded by the dawn…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-21Job responds by criticizing his counselors and questioning God (chapters 6 and 7). He explains his intense words by indicating his deep "grief" or "anguish" (6:2–3; 7:11). Job states that Eliphaz has not provided comfort or sympathy as a friend. Instead, Eliphaz chose to argue about out of date religious or theological ideas.Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 44. Literally, "When shall be the flight of the night?" [Gesenius]. Umbreit, not so well, "The night is long extended"; literally, "measured out" (so Margin).Read the comment

Topics related to Job 7:4

• Afflictions and Adversities

In the dictionaries

• Bitterness
• Complain
• Dust
• Preserver
• Terrify
• Wearisome
• Dawn; Dawning
• Day and Night

Commentaries on Job 7

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings