God’s Word Translation
Job 30:17
17At night God pierces my bones. My body doesn’t rest.
Job 30:17 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
- New International Version (NIV)Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never rest.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
- New King James Version (NKJV)My bones are pierced in me at night, And my gnawing pains take no rest.
Context of Job 30:17
15Terrors are directed toward me. They blow away my dignity like the wind. My prosperity vanishes like a cloud. 16“Now my life is pouring out of me. Days of suffering seize me. At night God pierces my bones. My body doesn’t rest. 18With great strength he grabs my clothes. He seizes me by the collar of my robe. 19He throws me into the dirt so that I become like dust and ashes.
Read all of Job 30Job 30:17 word by word
לַ֗יְלָה עֲ֭צָמַי נִקַּ֣ר מֵעָלָ֑י וְ֝עֹרְקַ֗י לֹ֣א יִשְׁכָּבֽוּן׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Job 30:17
- Job 33:19In pain on their sickbeds, they are disciplined with endless aching in their bones
- Psalms 6:2Have pity on me, O Lord, because I am weak. Heal me, O Lord, because my bones shake with terror.
- Psalms 38:2Your arrows have struck me. Your hand has struck me hard.
- Job 7:4When I lie down, I ask, ‘When will I get up?’ But the evening is long, and I’m exhausted from tossing about until dawn.
- Psalms 22:2My God, I cry out by day, but you do not answer— also at night, but I find no rest.
- Isaiah 38:13I cried out until morning as if a lion had crushed all my bones. You ended my life in one day.
Commentaries on Job 30:17
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 17My bones are pierced in me - The bones are often represented in the Scriptures as the seat of acute pain; Psalm 6:2; Psalm 22:14; Psalm 31:10; Psalm 38:3; Psalm 42:10; Proverbs 14:30; compare Job 20:11. The meaning here is, that he had had shooting or piercing pains in the night, which disturbed and prevented his rest. It is mentioned as a special aggravation of his sufferings that they were “in the night” - a time when we expect repose. And my sinews…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 15-31Verses 15-31 Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin which did, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join with outward calamities, the soul is hurried as in a tempest, and is filled with confusion. But woe be to those who really have God for an enemy! Compared with the awful state of ungodly men, what are all outward, or even inward temporal afflictions? There is something with which Job comforts…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-31Job compares his past happiness, honor, and wealth with his current loss of social dignity and divine friendship (chapters 29 and 30). He ends his speech with broad vows of innocence (chapter 31).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 16-2316-23. Job's outward calamities affect his mind. poured out--in irrepressible complaints (Psa 42:4; Jos 7:5).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 30
- 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
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
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