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Job’s Prosperity Becomes Calamity

Job 30:17

In 11 translations

BSB
Night pierces my bones, and my gnawing pains never rest.
KJV
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
WEB
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
ASV
In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
LSV
[At] night my bone has been pierced in me, || And my gnawing [pain] does not lie down.
YLT
At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.
DBY
The night pierceth through my bones [and detacheth them] from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:
DRC
In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.
GNV
It pearceth my bones in the night, and my sinewes take no rest.
JPS
In the night my bones are pierced, and fall from me, and my sinews take no rest.
LXXE
And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed.

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Original-language editions

WLC
לַ֗יְלָה עֲ֭צָמַי נִקַּ֣ר מֵעָלָ֑י וְ֝עֹרְקַ֗י לֹ֣א יִשְׁכָּבֽוּן׃
LXX-Br
Νυκτὶ δέ μου τὰ ὀστᾶ συγκέχυται, τὰ δὲ νεῦρά μου διαλέλυται.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Job 7:4When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.
  • Isaiah 38:13I composed myself until the morning. Like a lion He breaks all my bones; from day until night You make an end of me.
  • Job 33:19–21A man is also chastened on his bed with pain and constant distress in his bones, so that he detests his bread, and his soul loathes his favorite food. His flesh wastes away from sight, and his hidden bones protrude.
  • Psalms 22:2I cry out by day, O my God, but You do not answer, and by night, but I have no rest.
  • Psalms 6:2–6Be merciful to me, O LORD, for I am frail; heal me, O LORD, for my bones are in agony. My soul is deeply distressed. How long, O LORD, how long? Turn, O LORD, and deliver my soul; save me because of Your loving…
  • Psalms 38:2–8For Your arrows have pierced me deeply, and Your hand has pressed down on me. There is no soundness in my body because of Your anger; there is no rest in my bones because of my sin. For my iniquities have overwhelmed…

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