Job 30:17 - Exposition

My bones are pierced in me in the night season . In Elephantiasis anaesthetics ' says Dr. Erasmus Wilson, "when the integument is insensible, there are deep-seated burning pains, sometimes of a bone or joint, and sometimes of the vertebral column. These pains are greatest at night ; they prevent sleep, and give rise to restless,less and frightful dreams". And my sinews take no rest; rather, my gnawings , or my gnawing pains (see the Revised Version; and comp. Job 30:3 , where the same word is properly rendered by "gnawing [the wilderness]").