Job 7:13

13 If I say, 'I'm going to bed, then I'll feel better. A little nap will lift my spirits,'

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 "And so I'm not keeping one bit of this quiet, I'm laying it all out on the table; my complaining to high heaven is bitter, but honest.
12 Are you going to put a muzzle on me, the way you quiet the sea and still the storm?
13 If I say, 'I'm going to bed, then I'll feel better. A little nap will lift my spirits,'
14 You come and so scare me with nightmares and frighten me with ghosts
15 That I'd rather strangle in the bedclothes than face this kind of life any longer.
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