Job 30:17
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
Job 30:17 in other translations
| BSB | Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest. |
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| 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. |
| YLT | At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down. |
| DARBY | The night pierceth through my bones and detacheth them from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest: |
| BBE | The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains. |
| Webster | My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest. |
What does Job 30:17 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Job 30:16-23
16-23. Job's outward calamities affect his mind. poured out--in irrepressible complaints (Psa 42:4; Jos 7:5).
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 30:15-31
Job complains a great deal. Harbouring hard thoughts of God was the sin which did, at this time, most easily beset Job. When inward temptations join with outward calamities, the soul is hurried as in a tempest, and is filled with confusion. But woe be to those who really have God for an enemy! Compared with the awful state of ungodly men, what are all outward, or even inward temporal afflictions? There is something…
Job 30:17 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Job 30:17
- Job 7:4
When 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.
- Isaiah 38:13
I reckoned till morning, that, as a lion, so will he break all my bones: from day even to night wilt thou make an end of me.
- Psalms 22:2
O my God, I cry in the daytime, but thou hearest not; and in the night season, and am not silent.
- Psalms 6:2-6
Have mercy upon me, O Lord; for I am weak: O Lord, heal me; for my bones are vexed. My soul is also sore vexed: but thou, O Lord, how long? Return, O Lord, deliver my soul: oh save me for thy mercies’ sake. For in death there is no remembrance of thee: in the grave who shall give thee thanks? …
- Job 33:19-21
He is chastened also with pain upon his bed, and the multitude of his bones with strong pain: So that his life abhorreth bread, and his soul dainty meat. His flesh is consumed away, that it cannot be seen; and his bones that were not seen stick out.
- Psalms 38:2-8
For thine arrows stick fast in me, and thy hand presseth me sore. There is no soundness in my flesh because of thine anger; neither is there any rest in my bones because of my sin. For mine iniquities are gone over mine head: as an heavy burden they are too heavy for me. My wounds stink and are corrupt because of my foolishness. …
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Context
- Job 30:16
And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
- Job 30:17
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
- Job 30:18
By the great force of my disease is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
Job 30:17 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | De noche taladra sobre mí mis huesos, y mis pulsos no reposan. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | La nuit perce mes os et les détache de dessus moi, et ceux qui me rongent ne dorment pas; |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Die Nacht durchbohrt meine Gebeine und löst sie von mir ab, und die an mir nagenden Schmerzen ruhen nicht. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Nocte os meum perforatur doloribus, et qui me comedunt, non dormiunt. |