Job 7:13
New International Version
When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,

New Living Translation
I think, ‘My bed will comfort me, and sleep will ease my misery,’

English Standard Version
When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’

Berean Standard Bible
When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,

King James Bible
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

New King James Version
When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, My couch will ease my complaint,’

New American Standard Bible
“If I say, ‘My couch will comfort me, My bed will ease my complaint,’

NASB 1995
“If I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, My couch will ease my complaint,’

NASB 1977
“If I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, My couch will ease my complaint,’

Legacy Standard Bible
If I say, ‘My bed will comfort me; My couch will ease my bitter musing,’

Amplified Bible
“When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, My couch will ease my complaint,’

Christian Standard Bible
When I say, “My bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint,”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When I say: My bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint,

American Standard Version
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
Because I said, ‘you will comfort me and I shall take heart from the agony of my lying down’

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I said that my bed should comfort me, and I would privately counsel with myself on my couch.

Contemporary English Version
I go to bed, hoping for rest,

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved speaking with myself on my couch:

English Revised Version
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When I say, 'My couch may give me comfort. My bed may help me bear my pain,'

Good News Translation
I lie down and try to rest; I look for relief from my pain.

International Standard Version
For I've said, 'My bed will comfort me; my couch will ease my burdens while I complain.'

JPS Tanakh 1917
When I say: 'My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint';

Literal Standard Version
When I said, My bed comforts me, | In my talking He takes away my couch.

Majority Standard Bible
When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,

New American Bible
When I say, “My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint,”

NET Bible
If I say, "My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,"

New Revised Standard Version
When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’

New Heart English Bible
When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;'

Webster's Bible Translation
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

World English Bible
When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’

Young's Literal Translation
When I said, 'My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch.

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Context
Job Continues: Life Seems Futile
12Am I the sea, or the monster of the deep, that You must keep me under guard? 13When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint, 14then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,…

Cross References
Job 3:26
I am not at ease or quiet; I have no rest, for trouble has come."

Job 7:4
When I lie down I think: 'When will I get up?' But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.

Job 7:14
then You frighten me with dreams and terrify me with visions,

Psalm 6:6
I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.


Treasury of Scripture

When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;

My bed.

Job 7:3,4
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me…

Job 9:27,28
If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: …

Psalm 6:6
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

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Job 7
1. Job excuses his desire of death.
12. He complains of his own restlessness, and reasons with God.














Verses 13, 14. - When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint. Sometimes, notwithstanding his many "wearisome nights" (ver. 5), Job would entertain a hope of a few hours' rest and tranquillity, as, wearied and exhausted, he sought his couch, and laid himself down upon it, but only to be disappointed. Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions. Unpleasant dreams are said to be a symptom, or at any rate a frequent concomitant, of elephantiasis; but Job seems to speak of something worse than these. Horrible visions came upon him, which he believed to be sent directly from the Almighty, and which effectually disturbed his rest, making night hideous. Probably this was one of the modes in which Satan was permitted to try and test him.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
When
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's 3588: A relative conjunction

I think
אָ֭מַרְתִּי (’ā·mar·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

my bed
עַרְשִׂ֑י (‘ar·śî)
Noun - feminine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 6210: A couch, divan

will comfort me,
תְּנַחֲמֵ֣נִי (tə·na·ḥă·mê·nî)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person feminine singular | first person common singular
Strong's 5162: To sigh, breathe strongly, to be sorry, to pity, console, rue, to avenge

and my couch
מִשְׁכָּבִֽי׃ (miš·kā·ḇî)
Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 4904: Place of lying, a couch, act of lying

will ease
יִשָּׂ֥א (yiś·śā)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take

my complaint,
בְ֝שִׂיחִ֗י (ḇə·śî·ḥî)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular construct | first person common singular
Strong's 7878: To muse, complain, talk (of)


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