Job 7:4

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Deut 28:67 : 67 In the morning you will say,‘If only it were evening!’ And in the evening you will say,‘I wish it were morning!’ because of the things you will fear and the things you will see.
  • Job 7:13-14 : 13 If I say,“My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,” 14 then you scare me with dreams and terrify me with visions,
  • Job 17:12 : 12 These men change night into day; they say,‘The light is near in the face of darkness.’
  • Job 30:17 : 17 Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never cease.
  • Ps 6:6 : 6 I am exhausted as I groan; all night long I drench my bed in tears; my tears saturate the cushion beneath me.
  • Ps 77:4 : 4 You held my eyelids open; I was troubled and could not speak.
  • Ps 109:23 : 23 I am fading away like a shadow at the end of the day; I am shaken off like a locust.
  • Ps 130:6 : 6 I yearn for the Lord, more than watchmen do for the morning, yes, more than watchmen do for the morning.
  • Isa 54:11 : 11 “O afflicted one, driven away, and unconsoled! Look, I am about to set your stones in antimony and I lay your foundation with lapis lazuli.

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