Job 7:13
When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
BSB
ASV
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;
KJV
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
When I say my bed shall comfort me, I shall be eased in speaking with myself on my couch, then Thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions. For in Holy Writ a 'bed,' a 'couch,' or 'litter,' is usually taken for the secret depth of the heart. For it is hence that under the likeness of each separate soul, the Spouse, urged by the piercing darts of holy love, says in the Song of Songs, By night on my bed I sought him, whom my soul loveth.
When I say, My bed shall comfort me - The idea in this verse and the following is, that there was no intermission to his sorrows. Even the times when people usually sought repose were to him times of distress. Then he was disturbed and alarmed by the most frightful dreams and visions, and sleep fled from him. Shall ease my complaint - The word rendered “shall ease” ישׂא yı̂śâ' means rather, shall bear; that is, shall lighten or sustain. The meaning is, that he sought relief on his bed.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 6:6I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
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I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.
For my days vanish like smoke, and my bones burn like glowing embers.
My friends are my scoffers as my eyes pour out tears to God.
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Psalms 77:4You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.
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When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
Then they sat on the ground with him for seven days and seven nights, but no one spoke a word to him because they saw how intense his suffering was.