Job 7:13
Modern Translations
New International Version
When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,

New Living Translation
I think, ‘My bed will comfort me, and sleep will ease my misery,’

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

Berean Study Bible
When I think my bed will comfort me and my couch will ease my complaint,

New American Standard Bible
“If I say, ‘My couch will comfort me, My bed will ease my complaint,’

NASB 1995
"If I say, 'My bed will comfort me, My couch will ease my complaint,'

NASB 1977
“If I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, My couch will ease my complaint,’

Amplified Bible
“When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me, My couch will ease my complaint,’

Christian Standard Bible
When I say, “My bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint,”

Holman Christian Standard Bible
When I say: My bed will comfort me, and my couch will ease my complaint,

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

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
When I say, 'My couch may give me comfort. My bed may help me bear my pain,'

International Standard Version
For I've said, 'My bed will comfort me; my couch will ease my burdens while I complain.'

NET Bible
If I say, "My bed will comfort me, my couch will ease my complaint,"
Classic Translations
King James Bible
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

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

King James 2000 Bible
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

New Heart English Bible
When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;'

World English Bible
When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me. My couch shall ease my complaint;'

American King James Version
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaints;

American Standard Version
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint;

A Faithful Version
When I say, 'My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint,'

Darby Bible Translation
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

English Revised Version
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

Webster's Bible Translation
When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
When I say, My couch shal relieue me, and my bed shall bring comfort in my meditation,

Bishops' Bible of 1568
When I say, My bed shal comfort me, I shall haue some refreshing by talking to my selfe vpon my couch:

Coverdale Bible of 1535
When I thynke: my bedd shall comforte me, I shall haue some refresshinge by talkynge with myself vpon my couche:
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
When I said, My bed comforts me, "" In my talking He takes away my couch.

Young's Literal Translation
When I said, 'My bed doth comfort me,' He taketh away in my talking my couch.

Smith's Literal Translation
For I said, My bed shall comfort me; my couch shall lift up in my complaint;

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

Catholic Public Domain Version
If I say, “My bed will comfort me, and I will find rest, speaking with myself on my blanket,”

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Because I said, ‘you will comfort me and I shall take heart from the agony of my lying down’

Lamsa Bible
For I said that thou shalt comfort me, and I will be relieved of the pain of my sickbed.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
When I say: 'My bed shall comfort me, My couch shall ease my complaint';

Brenton Septuagint Translation
I said that my bed should comfort me, and I would privately counsel with myself on my couch.
















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