I think, ‘My bed will comfort me, and sleep will ease my misery,’
Parallel translations
- WEB When I say, ‘My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;’
- KJV When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
- BSB When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,
- NKJV When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, My couch will ease my complaint,’
- NASB “If I say, ‘My couch will comfort me, My bed will ease my complaint,’
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Quick answer
Job hopes his bed and couch will bring comfort and ease his complaint. He looks to sleep for relief from his distress.
Overview
Job describes turning to rest as a refuge from his suffering, expecting it to soothe his pain. The verse sets up the cruel reversal of the next, where even sleep brings terror. It reveals how his affliction invades every corner of life, leaving no ordinary comfort intact.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 4
- Ps 6:6I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
- Ps 77:4You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.
- Job 7:3–4so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
- Job 9:27–28If I say, ‘I will forget my complaint, I will put off my sad face, and cheer up;’
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Job's cry for a mediator who can lay his hand on both God and man, and his confidence that 'my Redeemer lives' and will stand on the earth, reaches forward to Jesus the living Redeemer.
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