Job 7 · Verse 13

Job 7:13

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

Job 7:13 in other translations

BSBWhen I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
WEBWhen I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’
ASVWhen I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;
YLTWhen I said, ‘My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch.
DARBYWhen I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
BBEWhen I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease;
WebsterWhen I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

What does Job 7:13 mean?

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Job 7:7-16

Plain truths as to the shortness and vanity of man's life, and the certainty of death, do us good, when we think and speak of them with application to ourselves. Dying is done but once, and therefore it had need be well done. An error here is past retrieve. Other clouds arise, but the same cloud never returns: so a new generation of men is raised up, but the former generation vanishes away. Glorified saints shall…

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Job 7:13 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

כִּֽי\־ki-ifH3588
אָ֭מַרְתִּי'A.mar.tiI saidH559
תְּנַחֲמֵ֣נִיte.na.cha.Me.niit will comfort meH5162
עַרְשִׂ֑י'ar.Sicouch myH6210
יִשָּׂ֥אyi.Sa'it will carryH5375
בְ֝שִׂיחִ֗יve.si.Chiin complaint myH7879
מִשְׁכָּבִֽי\׃mish.ka.Vibed myH4904

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Job 7:13

  • Psalms 6:6

    I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

  • Psalms 77:4

    Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

  • Job 7:3-4

    So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. 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.

  • Job 9:27-28

    If I say, I will forget my complaint, I will leave off my heaviness, and comfort myself: I am afraid of all my sorrows, I know that thou wilt not hold me innocent.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
My bed.
3,4; 9:27,28; Ps 6:6; 77:4

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Job 7:12

    Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou settest a watch over me?

  • Job 7:13

    When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

  • Job 7:14

    Then thou scarest me with dreams, and terrifiest me through visions:

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Job 7:13 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Cuando digo: Mi cama me consolará, mi cama atenuará mis quejas;
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Quand je dis: Mon lit me consolera, ma couche allégera ma détresse,
German
Elberfelder 1871		Wenn ich sage: Trösten wird mich mein Bett, mein Lager wird tragen helfen meine Klage,
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Si dixero: Consolabitur me lectulus meus, et relevabor loquens mecum in strato meo: