Job 7:14

"When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me. My couch will ease my complaint,’"

Key Reflection

In first-century Israel, beds and couches were often hard and uncomfortable, serving more as a place of rest than comfort. Job’s statement that his bed would ease his complaints reflects his desperate longing for relief from suffering. For the original audience, this would have underscored the severity of Job's trials, highlighting how even a brief respite from pain was elusive in his circumstances.

From the Scholars: Barnes' Notes

Then thou scarest me -This is an address to God. He regarded him as the source of his sorrows, and he expresses his sense of this in language indeed very beautiful, but far from reverence. With dreams- seeJob 7:4. A similar expression occurs in Ovid: Ut puto, cam requies medicinaque publica curae, Somnus adest, soliris nox venit orba malis, Somnia me terrent. veros imitantia casus, Et vigilant sensus in mea damna mei. Do Ponto, Lib. i. Eleg. 2. And terrifiest me through visions -See the notes atJob 4:13. This refers to the visions of the fancy, or to frightful appearances in the night.

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