Job 7:4 BSB — MannaFest

Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אִם־	'im-	if	H518 →
שָׁכַ֗בְתִּי	sha.Khav.ti	I lay down	H7901 →
וְאָמַ֗רְתִּי	ve.'a.Mar.ti	and I will say	H559 →
מָתַ֣י	ma.Tai	when?	H4970 →
אָ֭קוּם	'A.kum	will I arise	H6965 →
וּמִדַּד־	u.mi.dad-	and it will continue	H4058 →
עָ֑רֶב	'A.rev	evening	H6153 →
וְשָׂבַ֖עְתִּי	ve.sa.Va'.ti	and I will be surfeited	H7646 →
נְדֻדִ֣ים	ne.du.Dim	restlessness<es>	H5076 →
עֲדֵי־	'a.dei-	until	H5704 →
נָֽשֶׁף׃	Na.shef	twilight	H5399 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

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.

Through
Psalms 6:6
I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
leads to
- Psalms 42:3
  My tears have been my food both day and night, while men ask me all day long, “Where is your God?”
- Psalms 38:9
  O Lord, my every desire is before You; my groaning is not hidden from You.
- Psalms 69:3
  I am weary from my crying; my throat is parched. My eyes fail, looking for my God.
Through
Deuteronomy 28:67
In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you…
leads to
- Deuteronomy 28:34
  You will be driven mad by the sights you see.
- Job 7:3–4
  So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.
- Revelation 9:6
  In those days men will seek death and will not find it; they will long to die, but death will escape them.
Through
Psalms 77:4
You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.
leads to
- Job 7:13–15
  When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
- Psalms 6:6
  I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.

The gold bar shows how strongly the cross-reference sources tie the two verses together: a long bar means many compiled references make the connection, a short one means few.

Deuteronomy 28:67In the morning you will say, ‘If only it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘If only it were morning!’—because of the dread in your hearts of the terrifying sights you will see.Job 7:13–14When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,Psalms 77:4You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.Job 30:17Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.Psalms 6:6I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.Psalms 130:6My soul waits for the Lord more than watchmen wait for the morning— more than watchmen wait for the morning.Job 17:12They have turned night into day, making light seem near in the face of darkness.Job 33:19A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,Psalms 109:23I am fading away like a lengthening shadow; I am shaken off like a locust.Isaiah 54:11“O afflicted city, lashed by storms, without solace, surely I will set your stones in antimony and lay your foundations with sapphires.

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