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

2As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: 3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. 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. 5My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome. 6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, and are spent without hope.

Job 7:4 word by word

אִם־שָׁכַ֗בְתִּי וְאָמַ֗רְתִּי מָתַ֣י אָ֭קוּם וּמִדַּד־עָ֑רֶב וְשָׂבַ֖עְתִּי נְדֻדִ֣ים עֲדֵי־נָֽשֶׁף׃Read the interlinear

• 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 shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
• Job 17:12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
• Job 30:17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
• Deuteronomy 28:67In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
• Psalms 6:6I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.
• Psalms 77:4Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
• Psalms 130:6My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
• Psalms 109:23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
• Isaiah 54:11O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, and not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.

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