17My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: …
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
Have mercy upon me, O LORD; for I am weak: O LORD, heal me; for my bones are vexed. …
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 15-31)In this second part of Job’s complaint, which is very bitter, and has a great many sorrowful accents in it, we may observe a great deal that he complains of and some little that he comforts himself with. I. Here is much that he complains of. 1. In general, it was a day of great affliction and sorrow. (1.) Affliction seized him, and surprised him. It seized him (Job 30:16): The days of affliction h…
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