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Job 7:13

If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved, speaking with myself on my couch:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Torrey's Topical Textbook - Beds;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Job;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Greatness of God;   Easton Bible Dictionary - Couch;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Og;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Couches;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ancient of Days;   Ease;   Job, Book of;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
When I say, “My bed will comfort me,and my couch will ease my complaint,”
Hebrew Names Version
When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;'
King James Version
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;
English Standard Version
When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,'
New Century Version
Sometimes I think my bed will comfort me or that my couch will stop my complaint.
New English Translation
If I say, "My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,"
Amplified Bible
"When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, My couch will ease my complaint,'
New American Standard Bible
"If I say, 'My couch will comfort me, My bed will ease my complaint,'
World English Bible
When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;'
Geneva Bible (1587)
When I say, My couch shal relieue me, and my bed shall bring comfort in my meditation,
Legacy Standard Bible
If I say, ‘My bed will comfort me;My couch will ease my bitter musing,'
Berean Standard Bible
When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
Contemporary English Version
I go to bed, hoping for rest,
Complete Jewish Bible
When I think that my bed will comfort me, that my couch will relieve my complaint,
Darby Translation
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
Easy-to-Read Version
My bed should bring me comfort. My couch should give me rest and relief.
George Lamsa Translation
For I said that thou shalt comfort me, and I will be relieved of the pain of my sickbed.
Good News Translation
I lie down and try to rest; I look for relief from my pain.
Lexham English Bible
When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint,'
Literal Translation
When I say, My bed shall comfort me; my couch shall bear my complaining,
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
When I thynke: my bedd shall comforte me, I shall haue some refresshinge by talkynge with myself vpon my couche:
American Standard Version
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;
Bible in Basic English
When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease;
Bishop's Bible (1568)
When I say, My bed shal comfort me, I shall haue some refreshing by talking to my selfe vpon my couch:
JPS Old Testament (1917)
When I say: 'My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint';
King James Version (1611)
When I say, My bed shal comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint:
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
I said that my bed should comfort me, and I would privately counsel with myself on my couch.
English Revised Version
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
If Y seie, My bed schal coumfort me, and Y schal be releeuyd, spekynge with me in my bed;
Update Bible Version
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;
Webster's Bible Translation
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
New King James Version
When I say, "My bed will comfort me, My couch will ease my complaint,'
New Living Translation
I think, ‘My bed will comfort me, and sleep will ease my misery,'
New Life Bible
When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, and there I will find rest from my complaining,'
New Revised Standard
When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,'
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall help to carry my complaint,
Revised Standard Version
When I say, 'My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,'
Young's Literal Translation
When I said, `My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
"If I say, 'My bed will comfort me, My couch will ease my complaint,'

Contextual Overview

7 Remember that my life is but wind, and my eye shall not return to see good things. 8 Nor shall the sight of man behold me: thy eyes are upon me, and I shall be no more. 9 As a cloud is consumed, and passeth away: so he that shall go down to hell shall not come up. 10 Nor shall he return any more into his house, neither shall his place know him any more 11 Wherefore, I will not spare my month, I will speak in the affliction of my spirit: I will talk with the bitterness of my soul. 12 Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast inclosed me in a prison? 13 If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved, speaking with myself on my couch: 14 Thou wilt frighten me with dreams, and terrify me with visions. 15 So that my soul rather chooseth hanging, and my bones death. 16 I have done with hope, I shall now live no longer: spare me, for my days are nothing.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

My bed: Job 7:3, Job 7:4, Job 9:27, Job 9:28, Psalms 6:6, Psalms 77:4

Reciprocal: Job 17:12 - change Psalms 102:7 - watch Ecclesiastes 2:23 - his heart Jeremiah 8:18 - my Daniel 4:5 - a dream

Cross-References

Genesis 5:32
(5-31) And Noe, when he was five hundred years old, begot Sem, Cham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:10
And he begot three sons, Sem, Cham, and Japheth.
Genesis 6:18
And I will establish my covenant with thee, and thou shalt enter into the ark, thou and thy sons, and thy wife, and the wives of thy sons with thee.
Genesis 7:1
And the Lord said to him: Go in, thou and all thy house, into the ark: for thee I have seen just before me in this generation.
Genesis 7:2
Of all clean beasts take seven and seven, the male and the female.
Genesis 7:4
For yet a while, and after seven days, I will rain upon the earth forty days and forty nights: and I will destroy every substance that I have made, from the face of the earth.
Genesis 7:7
And Noe went in and his sons, his wife and the wives of his sons with him into the ark, because of the waters of the flood.
Genesis 7:9
Two and two went in to Noe into the ark, male and female, as the Lord had commanded Noe.
Genesis 7:18
For they overflowed exceedingly: and filled all on the face of the earth: and the ark was carried upon the waters.
Genesis 7:19
And the waters prevailed beyond measure upon the earth: and all the high mountains under the whole heaven were covered.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

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" h; be all on fire, and torture me instead of giving ease; and so may have respect to his burning ulcers.

h ישא "ardebit", Pagninus; so Kimchi in Sepher Shorash. & Ben Melech in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

When I say, My bed shall comfort me - The idea in this verse and the following is, that there was no intermission to his sorrows. Even the times when people usually sought repose were to him times of distress. Then he was disturbed and alarmed by the most frightful dreams and visions, and sleep fled from him.

Shall ease my complaint - The word rendered “shall ease” ישׂא yı̂śâ' means rather, shall bear; that is, shall lighten or sustain. The meaning is, that he sought relief on his bed.


 
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