Job 7:4

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

I pray for night to end, but it stretches out while I toss and turn.

Cross References

Job 17:12

But all my friends can do is offer empty hopes.

Job 30:17

Night chews on my bones, causing endless torment,

Psalm 109:23

I am fading away like an evening shadow; I am tossed aside like a crawling insect.

Psalm 130:6

I wait for you more eagerly than a soldier on guard duty waits for the dawn. Yes, I wait more eagerly than a soldier on guard duty waits for the dawn.

Psalm 6:6

My groaning has worn me out. At night my bed and pillow are soaked with tears.

Psalm 77:4

Because of you, Lord God, I can't sleep. I am restless and can't even talk.

Isaiah 54:11

Jerusalem, you are sad and discouraged, tossed around in a storm. But I, the LORD, will rebuild your city with precious stones; for your foundation I will use blue sapphires.

Deuteronomy 28:67

Each morning you will wake up to such terrible sights that you will say, “I wish it were night!” But at night you will be terrified and say, “I wish it were day!”