Job 7:13

13 When I think that my bed will comfort me, that my couch will relieve my complaint,

Job 7:13 Meaning and Commentary

Job 7:13

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 promised himself he should obtain by this means, as he had formerly had an experience of:

my couch shall ease my complaint;
he concluded, that by lying down upon his couch, and falling asleep, it would give some ease of body and mind; that his body would, at least, for some time be free from pain, and his mind composed, and should cease from complaining for a while; which interval would be a relief to him, and of considerable service. Some render it, "my couch shall burn" F8; be all on fire, and torture me instead of giving ease; and so may have respect to his burning ulcers.


FOOTNOTES:

F8 (avy) "ardebit", Pagninus; so Kimchi in Sepher Shorash. & Ben Melech in loc.

Job 7:13 In-Context

11 "Therefore I will not restrain my mouth but will speak in my anguish of spirit and complain in my bitterness of soul.
12 Am I the sea, or some sea monster, that you put a guard over me?
13 When I think that my bed will comfort me, that my couch will relieve my complaint,
14 then you terrify me with dreams and frighten me with visions.
15 I would rather be strangled; death would be better than these bones of mine.
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