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

2Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hired worker he waits for his pay. 3So I have been made to inherit months of futility, and troubled nights have been assigned to me. When I lie down I think, “When will I get up?” But the evening drags on endlessly, and I toss and turn until dawn. 5My flesh is clothed with maggots and encrusted with dirt. My skin forms scabs and then oozes. 6My days pass more swiftly than a weaver’s shuttle; they come to an end 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, and my couch will ease my complaint,”
• Job 17:12They turned night into day and made light seem near in the face of darkness.
• Job 30:17Night pierces my bones, but my gnawing pains never rest.
• Deuteronomy 28:67In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’ — because of the dread you will have in your heart and because of what you will see.
• Psalms 6:6I am weary from my groaning; with my tears I dampen my bed and drench my couch every night.
• Psalms 77:4You have kept me from closing my eyes; I am troubled and cannot speak.
• Psalms 130:6I wait for the Lord more than watchmen for the morning — more than watchmen for the morning.
• Psalms 109:23I fade away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
• Isaiah 54:11“Poor Jerusalem, storm-tossed, and not comforted, I will set your stones in black mortar, and lay your foundations in lapis lazuli.

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