Job 7:13-14 NIV

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 7:13

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 distress. Then he was disturbed and alarmed by the most frightful dreams and visions, and sleep fled from him.Shall ease my complaint - The word rendered “shall ease” ישׂא yı̂śâ' means rather, shall bear; that is, shall lighten or sustain. The meaning is, that he sought relief on his bed. read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - Job 7:14

Then thou scarest me - This is an address to God. He regarded him as the source of his sorrows, and he expresses his sense of this in language indeed very beautiful, but far from reverence.With dreams - see Job 7:4. A similar expression occurs in Ovid:Ut puto, cam requies medicinaque publica curae,Somnus adest, soliris nox venit orba malis,Somnia me terrent. veros imitantia casus,Et vigilant sensus in mea damna mei.Do Ponto, Lib. i. Eleg. 2.And terrifiest me through visions - See the notes at... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Job 7:13-14

Job 7:13-14. My couch shall ease my complaint By giving me sweet and quiet sleep, which may take off my sense of pain for that time. Then thou scarest me with dreams With sad and frightful dreams. And terrifiest me with visions With horrid apparitions; so that I am afraid to go to sleep, and my remedy proves as bad as my disease. This contributed no little to render the night so unwelcome and wearisome to him. How easily can God, when he pleases, meet us with terror there where we... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Job 7:1-21

Job’s reply to Eliphaz (6:1-7:21)Eliphaz had rebuked Job for his impatient outburst. In reply Job acknowledges that God is the one who has sent this affliction, but he points out that if Eliphaz knew how great this suffering was he would understand why Job spoke rashly (6:1-4). An animal cries out only with good reason (for example, if it is hungry for food). Job likewise cries out only with good reason. His tormenting thoughts and Eliphaz’s useless words are to him like food that makes him... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Job 7:13

complaint = complainings. read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Job 7:14

14. The frightful dreams resulting from elephantiasis he attributes to God; the common belief assigned all night visions to God. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 7:1-21

2. Job’s first reply to Eliphaz chs. 6-7Job began not with a direct reply to Eliphaz but with another complaint about his condition. Then he responded to Eliphaz’s speech but addressed all three of his friends. The "you" and "yours" in Job 6:24-30 are plural in the Hebrew text. read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Job 7:7-21

Job’s prayer to God 7:7-21Throughout his sufferings, Job did not turn away from God. Often people undergoing severe affliction do forsake Him. However, Job kept God in view and kept talking to God, even though he did not know what to ask, which was a major part of his torment. I believe this accounts for his ability to maintain his sanity and to come through his adversity finally. It is when people abandon God in their suffering that they get into serious trouble spiritually.Job believed he... read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Job 7:1-21

Job’s First Speech (concluded)1-10. Job laments the hardship and misery of his destiny.1. Man’s life is a lot of hardship. Appointed time] RM ’time of service.’2, 3. As the labourer longs for the weary day to end and to receive his wages, so Job bemoans the length of his sufferings and sighs for death to end them. 3. Months of vanity] so called because they were unsatisfactory, hopeless. ’Months’ imply that Job’s sufferings had lasted a considerable time. 5. Worms] from the diseased flesh.... read more

William Nicoll

Expositor's Dictionary of Texts - Job 7:1-21

Job 7:6 ; Job 7:9 Having gazed, in their brief fate, on a life that is no life at all, they disappear like a vapour, convinced alone of what each hath met in his whirling to and fro in all directions. Empedocles. Job 7:7 Although we have some experience of living, there is not a man on earth who has flown so high into abstraction as to have any practical guess at the meaning of the word life. All literature, from Job and Omar Khayyam to Thomas Carlyle or Walt Whitman, is but an attempt to... read more