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Job 7:13

Job 7:13
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

When I say, my bed shall comfort me,.... When he thought within himself that he would lie down upon his bed and try if he could get a little sleep, which might comfort and refresh him, and which he…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

When I say, My bed shall comfort me - The idea in this verse and the following is, that there was no intermission to his sorrows. Even the times when people usually sought repose were to him times of…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

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…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

Job 7:13-14

Further description of the plagues employed to subdue him.

ease my complaint Complaintalways means complaining, not malady; ch. Job 9:27; Job 10:1; Job 21:4; Job 23:2. When he looks for sleep

That…

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