You hold my eyelids open. I am so troubled that I can’t speak.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
- BSB You have kept my eyes from closing; I am too troubled to speak.
- NKJV You hold my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
- NASB You have held my eyelids open; I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
- NLT You don’t let me sleep. I am too distressed even to pray!
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- Job 7:13–15When I say, ‘My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;’
- Ps 6:6I am weary with my groaning. Every night I flood my bed. I drench my couch with my tears.
- Job 2:13So they sat down with him on the ground seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.
- Esth 6:1On that night, the king couldn’t sleep. He commanded the book of records of the chronicles to be brought, and they were read to the king.
- Job 6:3For now it would be heavier than the sand of the seas, therefore have my words been rash.
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