In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And thepainsthat gnaw me take no rest.
Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.
The night pierceth through my bones [and detacheth them] from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:
Job — Hebrew Scriptures (Old Testament).
J O B CHAP. XXX. It is a melancholy "But now" which this chapter begins with. Adversity is here described as much to the life as prosperity was in the foregoing chapter, and the height of that did but increase the depth of this. God sets the one over-against the…