Job 30:17

Night pierces ¹  my bones; ²  my gnawing pains ³  never cease.

biblegateway Job 30:17

Night pierces my bones; my gnawing pains never rest.

biblegateway Job 30:17

"At night it pierces my bones within me, And my gnawing pains take no rest.

biblegateway Job 30:17

My weary nights are filled with pain as though something were relentlessly gnawing at my bones.

biblegateway Job 30:17

Night gnaws at my bones; the pain never lets up.

SABDAweb Job 30:17

The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.

bibleoremus Job 30:17

The night racks my bones, and the pain that gnaws me takes no rest.

biblegateway Job 30:17

My bones are pierced in me at night, And my gnawing pains take no rest.

biblegateway Job 30:17

Night pierces ¹  my bones; ²  my gnawing pains ³  never cease.

¹ tn 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 tc The MT concludes this half-verse with “upon me.” That phrase is not in the LXX, and so many commentators delete it as making the line too long.

³ tn Heb “my gnawers,” which is open to several interpretations. The NASB and NIV take it as “gnawing pains”; cf. NRSV “the pain that gnaws me.” Some suggest worms in the sores (7:5). The LXX has “my nerves,” a view accepted by many commentators.