Job 7:4 · 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. {the night...: Heb. the evening be measured?}”
— Job 7:4
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my skin is broken, and become loathsome.
Job 7 — Context
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for {the reward of} his work: {earnestly...: Heb. gapeth after}
3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4When 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?}
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.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:67
In 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.
Job 7:13-14
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
Psalms 77:4
Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Psalms 130:6
My soul {waiteth} for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: {I say, more than} they that watch for the morning. {I say...: or, which watch unto}
Psalms 6:6
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears. {all...: or, every night}
Job 30:17
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
Job 17:12
They change the night into day: the light {is} short because of darkness. {short: Heb. near}
Isaiah 54:11
O thou afflicted, tossed with tempest, {and} not comforted, behold, I will lay thy stones with fair colours, and lay thy foundations with sapphires.