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Job 7:4 Cross-References
Explore 9 cross-references for Job 7:4 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Job chapter 7 verse 4 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“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 (KJV)
Commentary on Job 7:4
Job's description of insomnia captures the torment of sleepless suffering. The question 'When shall I arise?' (matay akum, מָתַי אָקוּם) expresses desperate longing for morning—yet when morning comes, he longs for it to pass. This psychological agony reveals suffering's disorienting power. The phrase 'full of tossings' uses the Hebrew nadad (נָדַד), meaning restless wandering or fleeing, suggesting violent, involuntary movements from pain.The temporal marker 'unto the dawning of the day' (neshef, נֶשֶׁף) refers to twilight or dawn—Job endures all night awaiting relief that brings only continue...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Job 7:4
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“Would it were even! and at even you shall say”
“'My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;'”
“Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.”
“My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say”
“and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.”
“I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.”
“saying 'The light is near' in the presence of darkness.”
“tossed with storms”
“I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.”