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Job 30:17

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30:17Night pierces37 my bones;38

my gnawing pains39 never cease.

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Footnotes

  1. 37 The subject of the verb “pierces” can be the night (personified), or it could be God (understood), leaving “night” to be an adverbial accusative of time—“at night he pierces.”
  2. 38 The concludes this half-verse with “upon me.” That phrase is not in the , and so many commentators delete it as making the line too long.
  3. 39 Heb “my gnawers,” which is open to several interpretations. The and take it as “gnawing pains”; cf. “the pain that gnaws me.” Some suggest worms in the sores (7:5). The has “my nerves,” a view accepted by many commentators.

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The night racks my bones,

and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Night pierces my bones;

my gnawing pains never rest.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

Night pierces my bones,

but my gnawing pains never rest.

NLTNew Living Translation

At night my bones are filled with pain,

which gnaws at me relentlessly.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

At night I am in great pain;

my pains do not take a rest.

KJV 1900King James Version

My bones are pierced in me in the night season:

And my sinews take no rest.