Job 7:4


“When I lie down I say,
‘When shall I arise [and the night be gone]?’
But the night continues,
And I am continually tossing until the dawning of day.

Deuteronomy 28:67

In the morning you will say, ‘I wish it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’—because of the dread in your heart with which you tremble, and because of the sight of your eyes which you will see.

Job 7:13-14


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

Job 17:12


“These [thoughts try to] make the night into the day;
‘The light is near,’ they say in the presence of darkness [but they pervert the truth].

Job 30:17


“My bones are pierced [with aching] in the night season,
And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

Psalm 6:6


I am weary with my groaning;
Every night I soak my bed with tears,
I drench my couch with my weeping.

Psalm 77:4


You have held my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.

Psalm 109:23


I am vanishing like a shadow when it lengthens and fades;
I am shaken off like the locust.

Psalm 130:6


My soul waits for the Lord
More than the watchmen for the morning;
More than the watchmen for the morning.

Isaiah 54:11


“O you afflicted [city], storm-tossed, and not comforted,
Listen carefully, I will set your [precious] stones in mortar,
And lay your foundations with sapphires.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

General references

Bible References

When

Job 7:13

“When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
My couch will ease my complaint,’
Job 17:12

“These [thoughts try to] make the night into the day;
‘The light is near,’ they say in the presence of darkness [but they pervert the truth].
Job 30:17

“My bones are pierced [with aching] in the night season,
And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.
Deuteronomy 28:67
In the morning you will say, ‘I wish it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’—because of the dread in your heart with which you tremble, and because of the sight of your eyes which you will see.
Psalm 6:6

I am weary with my groaning;
Every night I soak my bed with tears,
I drench my couch with my weeping.
Psalm 77:4

You have held my eyelids open;
I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
Psalm 130:6

My soul waits for the Lord
More than the watchmen for the morning;
More than the watchmen for the morning.

Tossings

Psalm 109:23

I am vanishing like a shadow when it lengthens and fades;
I am shaken off like the locust.
Isaiah 54:11

“O you afflicted [city], storm-tossed, and not comforted,
Listen carefully, I will set your [precious] stones in mortar,
And lay your foundations with sapphires.

General references

Deuteronomy 28:67
In the morning you will say, ‘I wish it were evening!’ and in the evening you will say, ‘I wish it were morning!’—because of the dread in your heart with which you tremble, and because of the sight of your eyes which you will see.