Job 30:17 · KJV
“My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.”
— Job 30:17
And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
By the great force {of my disease} is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
Job 30 — Context
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. {my soul: Heb. my principal one}
16And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
18By the great force {of my disease} is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
19He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
Cross References
Job 7:4
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. {the night...: Heb. the evening be measured?}
Psalms 6:2-6
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I {am} weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed.
Psalms 22:2
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent. {am...: Heb. there is no silence to me}
Job 33:19-21
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong {pain}:
Isaiah 38:13
I reckoned till morning, {that}, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day {even} to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Psalms 38:2-8
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore.