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Job 30:17
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Night pierces my bones,but my gnawing pains never rest.
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
At night my bones ache; gnawing pains never stop.
Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.
"My bones are pierced [with aching] in the night season, And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
"At night it pierces my bones within me, And my gnawing pains do not rest.
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
It pearceth my bones in the night, and my sinewes take no rest.
At night it pierces my bones within me,And my gnawing pains take no rest.
Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
Night chews on my bones, causing endless torment,
At night pain pierces me to the bone, so that I never rest.
The night pierceth through my bones [and detacheth them] from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:
In the night my bones are in pain, and my body has no strength in it.
At night my bones all ache; the pain that gnaws me never stops.
At night I am in great pain; my pains do not take a rest.
The night pierces my bones on me, and my gnawings never lie down.
My bones are pearsed thorow in ye night season, & my synewes take no rest.
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.
In the night my bones are pierced, and fall from me, and my sinews take no rest.
My bones are pierced in mee in the night season: and my sinewes take no rest.
My bones are pearsed through in the night season, and my sinewes take no rest.
And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed.
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
In nyyt my boon is persid with sorewis; and thei, that eten me, slepen not.
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
My bones are pierced in me at night, And my gnawing pains take no rest.
At night my bones are filled with pain, which gnaws at me relentlessly.
Night cuts into my bones with pain. The pain keeps on and takes no rest.
The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
Night, boreth, my bones, all over me, - and, my sinews, find no rest;
In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.
The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.
"At night it pierces my bones within me, And my gnawing pains take no rest.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
My bones: Job 33:19-21, Psalms 6:2-6, Psalms 38:2-8
in the night season: Job 7:4, Psalms 22:2, Isaiah 38:13
Reciprocal: Job 2:7 - sore boils Job 13:28 - And he Psalms 32:3 - bones Lamentations 4:8 - visage
Cross-References
Rachel said, "God has listened to my prayer. He decided to give me a son." So she named this son Dan.
Then God heard Rachel's prayer and made it possible for Rachel to have children.
Give me my wives and my children. I have earned them by working for you. You know that I served you well."
Laban said to him, "Please, let me say something. I know that the Lord has blessed me because of you.
Then the Lord said, "I have seen the troubles my people have suffered in Egypt, and I have heard their cries when the Egyptians hurt them. I know about their pain.
By that time the following year, Hannah had become pregnant and had a son. She named him Samuel. She said, "His name is Samuel because I asked the Lord for him."
But the angel said to him, "Zechariah, don't be afraid. Your prayer has been heard by God. Your wife Elizabeth will give birth to a baby boy, and you will name him John.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
My bones are pierced in me in the night season,.... Such was the force of his disease, that it pierced and penetrated even into his bones, and the marrow of them; and such the pain that he endured in the muscles and tendons about them, and especially in the joints of them, that it was as if all his bones were piercing and breaking to pieces; he was in a like condition the sick man is described in Job 33:19; and as David and Hezekiah were, Psalms 6:2; and what aggravated his case was, that this was "in the night season", when he should have got some sleep and rest, but could not for his pain: some render the words by supplying them thus; God, or the disease, or the pain, pierced my bones in the night season; or "the night pierced my bones from me"; so Mr. Broughton; but rather they may be rendered, and the sense be,
"in the night season everyone of my bones pierce "the flesh" that is upon me:''
his flesh was almost wasted and consumed, through the boil and ulcers on him, and he was reduced to a mere skeleton; and when he laid himself down on his bed, these pierced through his skin, and stuck out, and gave him exquisite pain:
and my sinews take no rest; being contracted; or his nerves, as the word in the Arabic language signifies, as is observed by Aben Ezra, Jarchi, Donesh, and others; which were loosened, and the animal spirits were sunk, and he so low and dispirited, that he could get no rest: or the pulsatile veins and arteries, as Ben Gersom and Elias Levita a, in which the pulse beats, and which beats with less strength when persons are asleep than when awake; but such was the force of Job's disease, that it beat even in the night, when on his bed, so strongly, that he could take no rest for it; the pulse beats, as physicians say b, sixty times in a minute, and double the number in a burning fever, and which might be Job's case. Some take the word in the sense of fleeing or gnawing c, as it is used Job 30:3; and interpret it either of his enemies, who pursued after him, and had no rest in their beds, but went out in the night to inquire and hear what they could learn concerning him and his illness, whether it was become greater d; or who devoured him by their calumnies and detractions, and could not sleep unless they did mischief to him; see Proverbs 4:16; or of the worms with which his body was covered, and which were continually gnawing, never rested, nor suffered him to take any rest; the Targum is, they that gnash at me rest not.
a In Tishbi, p. 67. So Lud. Capellus in loc. b Scheuchzer. Physic. Sacr. vol. 4. p 764. c וערקי "et rodentia mea", Schultens; "fugientia membra mea", so some in Michaelis. d Vid. Bar Tzemach in loc.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
My bones are pierced in me - The bones are often represented in the Scriptures as the seat of acute pain; Psalms 6:2; Psalms 22:14; Psalms 31:10; Psalms 38:3; Psalms 42:10; Proverbs 14:30; compare Job 20:11. The meaning here is, that he had had shooting or piercing pains in the night, which disturbed and prevented his rest. It is mentioned as a special aggravation of his sufferings that they were “in the night” - a time when we expect repose.
And my sinews take no rest - See the word here rendered sinews explained in the note at ver. 3. The word literally means gnawers, and hence, the teeth. The Vulgate renders it, qui me comedunt, non dormiunt, “they who devour me do not slumber.” The Septuagint, νευρά μον neura mou - my sinews, or arteries. Schleusner. Luther, “They who gnaw me.” Coverdale, Sinews. I see no reason to doubt that the teeth or the jaws are meant, and that Job refers to the violent pain in the tooth, among the acutest pains to which the body is subject. The idea is, that every part of the body was diseased and filled with pain.
