🌪️WEB · Job 7:13

What does Job 7:13 mean?

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

— Job 7:13 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

10

He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

11

“Therefore I will not keep silent. I will speak in the anguish of my spirit. I will complain in the bitterness of my soul.

12

Am I a sea, or a sea monster, that you put a guard over me?

13

When I say, ‘My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;’

14

then you scare me with dreams, and terrify me through visions:

15

so that my soul chooses strangling, death rather than my bones.

16

I loathe my life. I don’t want to live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

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