the Week of Proper 20 / Ordinary 25
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Job 7:4
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When I lie down I think,“When will I get up?”But the evening drags on endlessly,and I toss and turn until dawn.
When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
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 say, ‘When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.
When I lie down, I think, ‘How long until I get up?' The night is long, and I toss until dawn.
If I lie down, I say, ‘When will I arise?', and the night stretches on and I toss and turn restlessly until the day dawns.
"When I lie down I say, 'When shall I arise [and the night be gone]?' But the night continues, And I am continually tossing until the dawning of day.
"When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise?' But the night continues, And I am continually tossing until dawn.
When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
If I layed me downe, I sayde, When shall I arise? and measuring the euening I am euen full with tossing to and fro vnto the dawning of the day.
If I lie down I say,‘When shall I arise?'But the twilight continues,And I am saturated with tossing until dawn.
When I lie down I think: 'When will I get up?' But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
I pray for night to end, but it stretches out while I toss and turn.
When I lie down, I ask, ‘When can I get up?' But the night is long, and I keep tossing to and fro until daybreak.
If I lie down, I say, When shall I rise up, and the darkness be gone? and I am full of tossings until the dawn.
When I lie down, I think, ‘How long before it's time to get up?' The night drags on. I toss and turn until the sun comes up.
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? and the night seems long; when I go to rest, I toss about till the dawning of the day.
When I lie down to sleep, the hours drag; I toss all night and long for dawn.
When I lie down, I say, ‘When shall I rise?' But the night is long, and I have my fill of tossing until dawn.
When I lie down, I say, When shall I rise up? But the night is long, and I am full of tossings, until the twilight of the dawn.
When I layed me downe to slepe, I sayde: O when shal I ryse? Agayne, I longed sore for the night. Thus am I full off sorowe, till it be darcke.
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 go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.
When I layde me downe to sleepe, I sayde, O when shall I arise? and measuring the euening, I am euen full with tossing to and fro vnto the dawning of the day.
When I lie down, I say: 'When shall I arise?' But the night is long,
When I lie downe, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro, vnto the dawning of the day.
Whenever I lie down, I say, When will it be day? and whenever I rise up, again I say when will it be evening? and I am full of pains from evening to morning.
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? but the night is long; and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro to the dawning of the day.
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro to the dawning of the day.
When I lie down, I say, "When shall I arise, And the night be ended?' For I have had my fill of tossing till dawn.
Lying in bed, I think, ‘When will it be morning?' But the night drags on, and I toss till dawn.
When I lie down I say, ‘When will I get up?' But the night is long, and I am always turning from side to side until morning.
When I lie down I say, ‘When shall I rise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing until dawn.
As soon as I lie down, I say, When shall I arise? yet he lengtheneth out the evening, and I am wearied with tossings until the breeze of twilight.
If I lie down to sleep, I shall say: When shall I rise? and again, I shall look for the evening, and shall be filled with sorrows even till darkness.
When I lie down I say, 'When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn.
If I lay down then I said, `When do I rise!' And evening hath been measured, And I have been full of tossings till dawn.
"When I lie down I say, 'When shall I arise?' But the night continues, And I am continually tossing until dawn.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
When: Job 7:13, Job 7:14, Job 17:12, Job 30:17, Deuteronomy 28:67, Psalms 6:6, Psalms 77:4, Psalms 130:6
night: etc. Heb. evening be measured
tossings: Psalms 109:23, Isaiah 54:11
Reciprocal: Job 33:19 - pain Psalms 73:14 - For all
Cross-References
and ech litil tre of erthe bifore that it sprong out in erthe; and he made ech erbe of the feeld bifore that it buriownede. For the Lord God had not reyned on erthe, and no man was that wrouyte erthe;
And God seide, My spirit schal not dwelle in man with outen ende, for he is fleisch; and the daies of hym schulen be an hundrid and twenti yeer.
and seide, Y schal do awei man, whom Y made of nouyt, fro the face of the erthe, fro man til to lyuynge thingis, fro crepynge beeste til to the briddis of heuene; for it repentith me that Y made hem.
he seide to Noe, The ende of al fleisch is comen bifore me; the erthe is fillid with wickidnesse of the face of hem, and Y schal distrye hem with the erthe.
Lo! Y schal brynge `watris of diluuye ether greet flood on erthe, and Y schal sle ech fleisch in which is the spirit of lijf vndir heuene, and alle thingis that ben in erthe, schulen be wastid.
And whanne seuene daies hadden passid, the watris of the greet flood flowiden on erthe.
In the sixe hundrid yeer of the lijf of Noe, in the secunde moneth, in the seuententhe dai of the moneth, alle the wellis of the greet see weren brokun, and the wyndowis of heuene weren opened,
and reyn was maad on erthe fourti daies and fourti nyytis.
And the greet flood was maad fourti daies and fourti niytis on erthe, and the watris weren multiplied, and reiseden the schip on hiy fro erthe.
And ech fleisch was wastid that was moued on erthe, of briddis, of lyuynge beestis, of vnresonable beestis, and of alle `reptilis that crepen on erthe.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
When I lie down, I say, when shall I arise,.... Or, "then I say", c. t that is, as soon as he laid himself down in his bed, and endeavoured to compose himself to sleep, in order to get rest and refreshment; then he said within himself, or with an articulate voice, to those about him, that sat up with him; oh that it was time to rise; when will it be morning, that I may rise from my bed, which is of no manner of service to me, but rather increases weariness?
and the night be gone? and the day dawn and break; or "night" or "evening be measured", as in the margin, or "measures itself" u; or that "he", that is, God, or "it", my heart, "measures the evening" w, or "night"; lengthens it out to its full time: to a discomposed person, that cannot sleep, the night seems long; such count every hour, tell every clock that strikes, and long to see peep of day; these are they that watch for the morning, Psalms 130:6;
and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day; or, "unto the twilight"; the morning twilight; though some understand it of the twilight or evening of the next day, see 1 Samuel 30:17; and interpret "the tossings to and fro" of the toils and labours of the day, and of the sorrows and miseries of it, lengthened out to the eve of the following day; but rather they are to be understood either of the tosses of his mind, his distressed and perplexed thoughts within him he was full of; or of the tosses of his body, his frequent turning himself upon his bed, from side to side, to ease him; and with these he was "filled", or "satiated" x; he had enough and too much of them; he was glutted and sated with them, as a man is with overmuch eating, as the word signifies.
t ואמרתי "tum dixi", Beza, Piscator, Mercerus. u So Saadiah Gaon. w ומדד ערב "tum admensus est versperam", Schmidt; "extendit", Schultens; "et cor", Mercerus; so Aben Ezra, Ben Gersom, and Bar Tzemach. x שבעתי "satior", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Cocceius, Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
When I lie down - I find no comfort and no rest on my bed. My nights are long, and I am impatient to have them passed, and equally so is it with the day. This is a description which all can understand who have been laid on a bed of pain.
And the night be gone - Margin, evening be measured. Herder renders this, “the night is irksome to me.” The word rendered night (ערב ‛ereb) properly means the early part of the night, until it is succeeded by the dawn. Thus, in Genesis 1:5,” And the evening (ערב ‛ereb) and the morning were the first day.” Here it means the portion of the night which is before the dawning of the aurora - the night. The word rendered “be gone” and in the margin “be measured” ( מדּד mı̂ddad), has been variously rendered. The verb מדד mâdad means to stretch, to extend, to measure; and, according to Gesenius, the form of the word used here is a noun meaning flight, and the sense is, “when shall be the flight of the night?” He derives it from נדד nâdad to move, to flee, to flee away. So Rosenmuller explains it. The expression is poetic, meaning, when shall the night be gone?
I am full of tossings to and fro - (נדדים nâdûdı̂ym). A word from the same root. It means uneasy motions, restlessness. He found no quiet repose on his bed.
Unto the dawning - נשׁף nesheph, from נשׁף nâshaph, to breathe; hence, the evening twilight because the breezes blow, or seem to breathe, and then it means also the morning twilight, the dawn. Dr. Stock renders it, “until the morning breeze.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 7:4. When I lie down — I have so little rest, that when I do lie down I long for the return of the light, that I may rise. Nothing can better depict the state of a man under continual afflictions, which afford him no respite, his days and his nights being spent in constant anguish, utterly unable to be in any one posture, so that he is continually changing his position in his bed, finding ease nowhere: thus, as himself expresses it, he is full of tossings.
