Key Verse Spotlight
Job 30:17 — Meaning and Application
King James Version
“My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.”
Job 30:17
Verse in Context
Understanding the surrounding verses prevents misinterpretation:
Terrors are turned upon me: they pursue my soul as the wind: and my welfare passeth away as a cloud. {my soul: Heb. my principal one}
And now my soul is poured out upon me; the days of affliction have taken hold upon me.
My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.
By the great force {of my disease} is my garment changed: it bindeth me about as the collar of my coat.
He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.
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