4 When I lie down, I say, 'When shall I arise, and the night be gone?' I toss and turn until the dawning of the day.
In the morning you shall say, Would it were even! and at even you shall say, Would it were morning! for the fear of your heart which you shall fear, and for the sight of your eyes which you shall see.
When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;' Then you scar me with dreams, And terrify me through visions:
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
I am weary with my groaning; Every night I flood my bed; I drench my couch with my tears.
I fade away like an evening shadow. I am shaken off like a locust.
My soul longs for the Lord more than watchmen long for the morning; More than watchmen for the morning.
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Commentary on Job 7 Matthew Henry Commentary
Chapter 7
Job, in this chapter, goes on to express the bitter sense he had of his calamities and to justify himself in his desire of death.
Job 7:1-6
Job is here excusing what he could not justify, even his inordinate desire of death. Why should he not wish for the termination of life, which would be the termination of his miseries? To enforce this reason he argues,
Job 7:7-16
Job, observing perhaps that his friends, though they would not interrupt him in his discourse, yet began to grow weary, and not to heed much what he said, here turns to God, and speaks to him. If men will not hear us, God will; if men cannot help us, he can; for his arm is not shortened, neither is his ear heavy. Yet we must not go to school to Job here to learn how to speak to God; for, it must be confessed, there is a great mixture of passion and corruption in what he here says. But, if God be not extreme to mark what his people say amiss, let us also make the best of it. Job is here begging of God either to ease him or to end him. He here represents himself to God,
Job 7:17-21
Job here reasons with God,