Job 7:13

13 si dixero consolabitur me lectulus meus et relevabor loquens mecum in strato meo

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 quapropter et ego non parcam ori meo loquar in tribulatione spiritus mei confabulabor cum amaritudine animae meae
12 numquid mare sum ego aut cetus quia circumdedisti me carcere
13 si dixero consolabitur me lectulus meus et relevabor loquens mecum in strato meo
14 terrebis me per somnia et per visiones horrore concuties
15 quam ob rem elegit suspendium anima mea et mortem ossa mea
The Latin Vulgate is in the public domain.