Verse 13
Job 7:13
American Standard Version Byzantine Text
13
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;
Original Language Text
hebrew
כִּֽי אָ֭מַרְתִּי תְּנַחֲמֵ֣/נִי עַרְשִׂ֑/י יִשָּׂ֥א בְ֝/שִׂיחִ֗/י מִשְׁכָּבִֽ/י
English Translation
For I said, "May my comfort be lifted up from my couch, and may my conversation be from my bed."
AI translation from hebrew via gpt-4o-mini
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Chapter 7 Context
1
Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
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2
As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as a hireling that looketh for his wages:
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3
So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.
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4
When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and...
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5
My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; My skin closeth up, and breaketh out afresh.
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6
My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle, And are spent without hope.
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7
Oh remember that my life is a breath: Mine eye shall no more see good.
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8
The eye of him that seeth me shall behold me no more; Thine eyes shall be upon me, but I shall not b...
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9
As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away, So he that goeth down to Sheol shall come up no more.
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10
He shall return no more to his house, Neither shall his place know him anymore.
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11
Therefore I will not refrain my mouth; I will speak in the anguish of my spirit; I will complain in...
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12
Am I a sea, or a sea monster, That thou settest a watch over me?
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13
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;
14
Then thou scarest me with dreams, And terrifiest me through visions:
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15
So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.
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16
I loathe my life; I would not live always: Let me alone; for my days are vanity.
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17
What is man, that thou shouldest magnify him, And that thou shouldest set thy mind upon him,
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18
And that thou shouldest visit him every morning, And try him every moment?
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19
How long wilt thou not look away from me, Nor let me alone till I swallow down my spittle?
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20
If I have sinned, what do I unto thee, O thou watcher of men? Why hast thou set me as a mark for the...
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21
And why dost thou not pardon my transgression, and take away mine iniquity? For now shall I lie down...
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