Job 30:17
15 Terrors are turned loose against me; they drive away my dignity as by the wind, and my prosperity has passed like a cloud.
16 And now my soul is poured out within me; days of affliction grip me.
Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
18 With great force He grasps my garment; He seizes me by the collar of my tunic.
19 He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
- KJV
- My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
- WEB
- In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
- ASV
- In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the [pains] that gnaw me take no rest.
- DARBY
- The night pierceth through my bones [and detacheth them] from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:
- BLB
- Night pierces my bones from upon me, and my gnawing pains will not lie down.
- ÅB
- Natten gjennomborer mine ben, så de faller av, og min verk og pine hviler ikke.
- OTB
- Om natten gjennomborer det mine ben i meg,
og mine ubarmhjertige smerter hviler ikke. - B1930
- Natten gjennemborer mine ben, så de faller av, og min verk og pine hviler ikke.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Job 7:4
When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
Read in contextIsaiah 38:13
I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.
Read in contextPsalms 22:2
I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
Read in contextPsalms 6:2–6
Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony.
Read in contextJob 33:19–21
A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones,
Read in contextPsalms 38:2–8
For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me.
Read in context