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Job 30:17

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Pain;   Sinews;   Thompson Chain Reference - Distress;   Insomnia;   Pain;   Sinews;   Sleep-Wakefulness;   Sleeplessness;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Job;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Bones;   Job, the Book of;   Season;   Sinew;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Bone;   Sinew;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Night pierces my bones,but my gnawing pains never rest.
Hebrew Names Version
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
King James Version
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
English Standard Version
The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
New Century Version
At night my bones ache; gnawing pains never stop.
New English Translation
Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.
Amplified Bible
"My bones are pierced [with aching] in the night season, And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
New American Standard Bible
"At night it pierces my bones within me, And my gnawing pains do not rest.
World English Bible
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
Geneva Bible (1587)
It pearceth my bones in the night, and my sinewes take no rest.
Legacy Standard Bible
At night it pierces my bones within me,And my gnawing pains take no rest.
Berean Standard Bible
Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
Contemporary English Version
Night chews on my bones, causing endless torment,
Complete Jewish Bible
At night pain pierces me to the bone, so that I never rest.
Darby Translation
The night pierceth through my bones [and detacheth them] from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:
Easy-to-Read Version
All my bones ache at night. Pain never stops chewing on me.
George Lamsa Translation
In the night my bones are in pain, and my body has no strength in it.
Good News Translation
At night my bones all ache; the pain that gnaws me never stops.
Lexham English Bible
At night I am in great pain; my pains do not take a rest.
Literal Translation
The night pierces my bones on me, and my gnawings never lie down.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
My bones are pearsed thorow in ye night season, & my synewes take no rest.
American Standard Version
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
Bible in Basic English
The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
In the night my bones are pierced, and fall from me, and my sinews take no rest.
King James Version (1611)
My bones are pierced in mee in the night season: and my sinewes take no rest.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
My bones are pearsed through in the night season, and my sinewes take no rest.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed.
English Revised Version
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
In nyyt my boon is persid with sorewis; and thei, that eten me, slepen not.
Update Bible Version
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.
Webster's Bible Translation
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
New King James Version
My bones are pierced in me at night, And my gnawing pains take no rest.
New Living Translation
At night my bones are filled with pain, which gnaws at me relentlessly.
New Life Bible
Night cuts into my bones with pain. The pain keeps on and takes no rest.
New Revised Standard
The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Night, boreth, my bones, all over me, - and, my sinews, find no rest;
Douay-Rheims Bible
In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.
Revised Standard Version
The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.
Young's Literal Translation
At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"At night it pierces my bones within me, And my gnawing pains take no rest.

Contextual Overview

16"And now my life drains out, as suffering seizes and grips me hard. Night gnaws at my bones; the pain never lets up. I am tied hand and foot, my neck in a noose. I twist and turn. Thrown facedown in the muck, I'm a muddy mess, inside and out. 20"I shout for help, God, and get nothing, no answer! I stand to face you in protest, and you give me a blank stare! You've turned into my tormenter— you slap me around, knock me about. You raised me up so I was riding high and then dropped me, and I crashed. I know you're determined to kill me, to put me six feet under. 24"What did I do to deserve this? Did I ever hit anyone who was calling for help? Haven't I wept for those who live a hard life, been heartsick over the lot of the poor? But where did it get me? I expected good but evil showed up. I looked for light but darkness fell. My stomach's in a constant churning, never settles down. Each day confronts me with more suffering. I walk under a black cloud. The sun is gone. I stand in the congregation and protest. I howl with the jackals, I hoot with the owls. I'm black-and-blue all over, burning up with fever. My fiddle plays nothing but the blues; my mouth harp wails laments."

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

Genesis 30:6
Rachel said, "God took my side and vindicated me. He listened to me and gave me a son." She named him Dan (Vindication). Rachel's maid Bilhah became pregnant again and gave Jacob a second son. Rachel said, "I've been in an all-out fight with my sister—and I've won." So she named him Naphtali (Fight).
Genesis 30:22
And then God remembered Rachel. God listened to her and opened her womb. She became pregnant and had a son. She said, "God has taken away my humiliation." She named him Joseph (Add), praying, "May God add yet another son to me."
Genesis 30:27
Laban said, "If you please, I have learned through divine inquiry that God has blessed me because of you." He went on, "So name your wages. I'll pay you."
Exodus 3:7
God said, "I've taken a good, long look at the affliction of my people in Egypt. I've heard their cries for deliverance from their slave masters; I know all about their pain. And now I have come down to help them, pry them loose from the grip of Egypt, get them out of that country and bring them to a good land with wide-open spaces, a land lush with milk and honey, the land of the Canaanite, the Hittite, the Amorite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite.
1 Samuel 1:20
Before the year was out, Hannah had conceived and given birth to a son. She named him Samuel, explaining, "I asked God for him."
Luke 1:13
But the angel reassured him, "Don't fear, Zachariah. Your prayer has been heard. Elizabeth, your wife, will bear a son by you. You are to name him John. You're going to leap like a gazelle for joy, and not only you—many will delight in his birth. He'll achieve great stature with God. "He'll drink neither wine nor beer. He'll be filled with the Holy Spirit from the moment he leaves his mother's womb. He will turn many sons and daughters of Israel back to their God. He will herald God's arrival in the style and strength of Elijah, soften the hearts of parents to children, and kindle devout understanding among hardened skeptics—he'll get the people ready for God." Zachariah said to the angel, "Do you expect me to believe this? I'm an old man and my wife is an old woman." But the angel said, "I am Gabriel, the sentinel of God, sent especially to bring you this glad news. But because you won't believe me, you'll be unable to say a word until the day of your son's birth. Every word I've spoken to you will come true on time—God's time." Meanwhile, the congregation waiting for Zachariah was getting restless, wondering what was keeping him so long in the sanctuary. When he came out and couldn't speak, they knew he had seen a vision. He continued speechless and had to use sign language with the people. When the course of his priestly assignment was completed, he went back home. It wasn't long before his wife, Elizabeth, conceived. She went off by herself for five months, relishing her pregnancy. "So, this is how God acts to remedy my unfortunate condition!" she said. In the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to the Galilean village of Nazareth to a virgin engaged to be married to a man descended from David. His name was Joseph, and the virgin's name, Mary. Upon entering, Gabriel greeted her: Good morning! You're beautiful with God's beauty, Beautiful inside and out! God be with you. She was thoroughly shaken, wondering what was behind a greeting like that. But the angel assured her, "Mary, you have nothing to fear. God has a surprise for you: You will become pregnant and give birth to a son and call his name Jesus. He will be great, be called ‘Son of the Highest.' The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David; He will rule Jacob's house forever— no end, ever, to his kingdom." Mary said to the angel, "But how? I've never slept with a man." The angel answered, The Holy Spirit will come upon you, the power of the Highest hover over you; Therefore, the child you bring to birth will be called Holy, Son of God. "And did you know that your cousin Elizabeth conceived a son, old as she is? Everyone called her barren, and here she is six months pregnant! Nothing, you see, is impossible with God." And Mary said, Yes, I see it all now: I'm the Lord's maid, ready to serve. Let it be with me just as you say. Then the angel left her. Mary didn't waste a minute. She got up and traveled to a town in Judah in the hill country, straight to Zachariah's house, and greeted Elizabeth. When Elizabeth heard Mary's greeting, the baby in her womb leaped. She was filled with the Holy Spirit, and sang out exuberantly, You're so blessed among women, and the babe in your womb, also blessed! And why am I so blessed that the mother of my Lord visits me? The moment the sound of your greeting entered my ears, The babe in my womb skipped like a lamb for sheer joy. Blessed woman, who believed what God said, believed every word would come true! And Mary said, I'm bursting with God-news; I'm dancing the song of my Savior God. God took one good look at me, and look what happened— I'm the most fortunate woman on earth! What God has done for me will never be forgotten, the God whose very name is holy, set apart from all others. His mercy flows in wave after wave on those who are in awe before him. He bared his arm and showed his strength, scattered the bluffing braggarts. He knocked tyrants off their high horses, pulled victims out of the mud. The starving poor sat down to a banquet; the callous rich were left out in the cold. He embraced his chosen child, Israel; he remembered and piled on the mercies, piled them high. It's exactly what he promised, beginning with Abraham and right up to now. Mary stayed with Elizabeth for three months and then went back to her own home. When Elizabeth was full-term in her pregnancy, she bore a son. Her neighbors and relatives, seeing that God had overwhelmed her with mercy, celebrated with her. On the eighth day, they came to circumcise the child and were calling him Zachariah after his father. But his mother intervened: "No. He is to be called John." "But," they said, "no one in your family is named that." They used sign language to ask Zachariah what he wanted him named. Asking for a tablet, Zachariah wrote, "His name is to be John." That took everyone by surprise. Surprise followed surprise—Zachariah's mouth was now open, his tongue loose, and he was talking, praising God! A deep, reverential fear settled over the neighborhood, and in all that Judean hill country people talked about nothing else. Everyone who heard about it took it to heart, wondering, "What will become of this child? Clearly, God has his hand in this." Then Zachariah was filled with the Holy Spirit and prophesied, Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel; he came and set his people free. He set the power of salvation in the center of our lives, and in the very house of David his servant, Just as he promised long ago through the preaching of his holy prophets: Deliverance from our enemies and every hateful hand; Mercy to our fathers, as he remembers to do what he said he'd do, What he swore to our father Abraham— a clean rescue from the enemy camp, So we can worship him without a care in the world, made holy before him as long as we live. And you, my child, "Prophet of the Highest," will go ahead of the Master to prepare his ways, Present the offer of salvation to his people, the forgiveness of their sins. Through the heartfelt mercies of our God, God's Sunrise will break in upon us, Shining on those in the darkness, those sitting in the shadow of death, Then showing us the way, one foot at a time, down the path of peace. The child grew up, healthy and spirited. He lived out in the desert until the day he made his prophetic debut in Israel.

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.


 
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