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 worker who longs for the shade, like a servant waiting to be paid. 3I, too, have been assigned months of futility, long and weary nights of misery. Lying in bed, I think, ‘When will it be morning?’ But the night drags on, and I toss till dawn. 5My body is covered with maggots and scabs. My skin breaks open, oozing with pus. 6“My days fly faster than a weaver’s shuttle. They 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 7:13I think, ‘My bed will comfort me, and sleep will ease my misery,’
• Job 17:12These men say that night is day; they claim that the darkness is light.
• Job 30:17At night my bones are filled with pain, which gnaws at me relentlessly.
• Deuteronomy 28:67In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were night!’ And in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’ For you will be terrified by the awful horrors you see around you.
• Psalms 6:6I am worn out from sobbing. All night I flood my bed with weeping, drenching it with my tears.
• Psalms 77:4You don’t let me sleep. I am too distressed even to pray!
• Psalms 130:6I long for the Lord more than sentries long for the dawn, yes, more than sentries long for the dawn.
• Psalms 109:23I am fading like a shadow at dusk; I am brushed off like a locust.
• Isaiah 54:11“O storm-battered city, troubled and desolate! I will rebuild you with precious jewels and make your foundations from 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