God’s Word Translation
Job 7:13
13When I say, ‘My couch may give me comfort. My bed may help me bear my pain,’
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 won’t keep my mouth shut, but I will speak from the distress that is in my spirit and complain about the bitterness in my soul. 12“Am I the sea or a sea monster that you have set a guard over me? When I say, ‘My couch may give me comfort. My bed may help me bear my pain,’ 14then you frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions. 15My throat would rather be choked. My body would prefer death ⌞to these dreams⌟.
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 7:3Likewise, I have been given months that are of no use, and I have inherited nights filled with misery.
- Job 9:27⌞Even⌟ if I say, ‘I will forget my complaining; I will change my expression and smile,’
- Psalms 6:6I am worn out from my groaning. My eyes flood my bed every night. I soak my couch with tears.
- Psalms 77:4(You keep my eyelids open.) I am so upset that I cannot 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
In the dictionaries
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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