Job 7:4
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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.When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
In other translations
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.When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
Hebrew words
אִם־'im-ifH518שָׁכַבְתִּיshakhavtiI lay downH7901וְאָמַרְתִּיve'amartiand I will sayH559מָתַיmataiwhen?H4970אָקוּם'akumwill I ariseH6965וּמִדַּד־umidad-and it will continueH4058עָרֶב'areveveningH6153וְשָׂבַעְתִּיvesava'tiand I will be surfeitedH7646נְדֻדִיםnedudimrestlessness<es>H5076עֲדֵי־'adei-untilH5704נָשֶׁף׃nasheftwilightH5399
Word by word from STEPBible's tagged Hebrew Old Testament, STEPBible.org, CC BY 4.0. Hebrew reads right to left.
Related verses
- 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.In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.
- Job 7:13-1413 When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; 14 Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:13 When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint, 14 then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
- Psalm 77:4Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.
- Psalm 6:6I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
- Psalm 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.My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning— more than watchmen wait for the morning.
- Job 30:17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
- Job 17:12They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.
- 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.“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.
- Psalm 109:23I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.
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