4When 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.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
In the morning thou shalt say, Would God it were even! and at even thou shalt say, Would God it were morning! for the fear of thine heart wherewith thou shalt fear, and for the sight of thine eyes which thou shalt see.
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint; …
They change the night into day: the light is short because of darkness.
Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
I am gone like the shadow when it declineth: I am tossed up and down as the locust.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 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, I. From the general condition of man upon earth (Job 7:1): “He is of few days, and full of trouble . Every man must die shortly, and every man has some reason (more or less) to desi…
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