Job 30:17 Meaning and Explanation
“My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.”
King James Version (KJV)
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Read Full Chapter →At night Job's bones feel pierced through, and the gnawing pains that grip him never let him rest.
What Does Job 30:17 Mean?
Job describes his bodily torment. In "the night season," when rest should come, his bones feel as though pierced, and the pains that gnaw at him "take no rest," giving him no relief. The darkness that should bring sleep instead deepens his suffering.
Night is the loneliest hour for the afflicted, when pain looms largest and comfort is hardest to find. Job's sleepless agony is the cry of countless sufferers who count the slow hours till dawn. Yet Scripture holds out the promise that the One who keeps Israel neither slumbers nor sleeps, watching through every night that the weary cannot. Even when the body finds no rest, the soul may rest in the God who is awake beside the bed of pain.
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What does Job 30:17 mean?
At night Job's bones feel pierced through, and the gnawing pains that grip him never let him rest.