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Job 7:13
13When I lie down to sleep, I hope that my pain will be less.
Job 7:13 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
- New International Version (NIV)When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
- English Standard Version (ESV)When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,'
- New King James Version (NKJV)When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, My couch will ease my complaint,’
Context of Job 7:13
11So I must continue to speak. I will tell you how upset I am. I am angry because of what has happened to me. So I must complain. 12Why do you have to watch me, God, like a guard? Do you think that I am a dangerous monster from the sea? When I lie down to sleep, I hope that my pain will be less. 14But even then you give me dreams that frighten me. I have visions which make me very afraid. 15I would like someone to stop me breathing! Death would be better than life.
Read all of Job 7Job 7:13 word by word
כִּֽי־אָ֭מַרְתִּי תְּנַחֲמֵ֣נִי עַרְשִׂ֑י יִשָּׂ֥א בְ֝שִׂיחִ֗י מִשְׁכָּבִֽי׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 7:13
- Job 7:3But there is nothing for me to wait for. I wait for many months and nothing happens. Every night, I am always sad.
- Job 9:27I may try to be happy and to smile. I may try to forget about my troubles.
- Psalms 6:6I am crying so much that I have no more strength. My bed becomes wet because I weep all night. My tears run into my pillow.
- Psalms 77:4God, you do not let me close my eyes to sleep. I am so upset that I cannot even speak.
Commentaries on Job 7:13
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 13When I say, My bed shall comfort me - The idea in this verse and the following is, that there was no intermission to his sorrows. Even the times when people usually sought repose were to him times of distress. Then he was disturbed and alarmed by the most frightful dreams and visions, and sleep fled from him. Shall ease my complaint - The word rendered “shall ease” ישׂא yı̂śâ' means rather, shall bear; that is, shall lighten or sustain. The meaning is…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 7-16Verses 7-16 Plain truths as to the shortness and vanity of man's life, and the certainty of death, do us good, when we think and speak of them with application to ourselves. Dying is done but once, and therefore it had need be well done. An error here is past retrieve. Other clouds arise, but the same cloud never returns: so a new generation of men is raised up, but the former generation vanishes away. Glorified saints shall return no more to the cares…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 13-14Job's dreams and visions while sick were similar to those of Eliphaz (4:12–16).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-211. appointed time--better, "a warfare," hard conflict with evil (so in Is 40:2; Da 10:1). Translate it "appointed time" (Job 14:14). Job reverts to the sad picture of man, however great, which he had drawn (Job 3:14), and details in this chapter the miseries which his friends will see, if, according to his request (Job 6:28), they will look on him. Even the Christian soldier, "warring a good warfare," rejoices when it is completed (1Ti 1:18; 2Ti 2:3; 4:7…Read the comment
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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
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