Job 7:13
Good News Translation
I lie down and try to rest; I look for relief from my pain.

New Revised Standard Version
When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,’

Contemporary English Version
I go to bed, hoping for rest,

New American Bible
When I say, “My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint,”

Douay-Rheims Bible
If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved, speaking with myself on my couch:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved, speaking with myself on my couch:

My bed.

Job 7:3,4 So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights. . . .

Job 9:27,28 If I say: I will not speak so: I change my face, and am tormented with sorrow. . . .

Psalm 6:6 I have laboured in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed: I will water my couch with my tears.

Psalm 77:4 My eyes prevented the watches: I was troubled, and I spoke not.

Context
Job Continues: Life Seems Futile
12Am I a sea, or a whale, that thou hast enclosed me in a prison? 13If I say: My bed shall comfort me, and I shall be relieved, speaking with myself on my couch:14Thou wilt frighten me with dreams, and terrify me with visions.…
Cross References
Job 3:26
Have I not dissembled? have I not kept silence? have I not been quiet? and indignation is come upon me.

Job 7:4
If I lie down to sleep, I shall say: When shall I rise? and again, I shall look for the evening, and shall be filled with sorrows even till darkness.

Job 7:14
Thou wilt frighten me with dreams, and terrify me with visions.

Psalm 6:6
I have laboured in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed: I will water my couch with my tears.

Job 7:12
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