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

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You kept my eyes from closing;
    I was too troubled to speak.(A)

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13 (A)When I say, ‘My bed will comfort me,
My couch will ease my complaint,’
14 Then You scare me with dreams
And terrify me with visions,
15 So that my soul chooses strangling
And death rather than [a]my body.

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Footnotes

  1. Job 7:15 Lit. my bones

13 When I think my bed will comfort me
    and my couch will ease my complaint,(A)
14 even then you frighten me with dreams
    and terrify(B) me with visions,(C)
15 so that I prefer strangling and death,(D)
    rather than this body of mine.(E)

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I am weary with my groaning;
[a]All night I make my bed swim;
I drench my couch with my tears.

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  1. Psalm 6:6 Or Every night

I am worn out(A) from my groaning.(B)

All night long I flood my bed with weeping(C)
    and drench my couch with tears.(D)

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13 So they sat down with him on the ground (A)seven days and seven nights, and no one spoke a word to him, for they saw that his grief was very great.

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13 Then they sat on the ground(A) with him for seven days and seven nights.(B) No one said a word to him,(C) because they saw how great his suffering was.

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The King Honors Mordecai

That night [a]the king could not sleep. So one was commanded to bring (A)the book of the records of the chronicles; and they were read before the king.

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  1. Esther 6:1 Lit. the king’s sleep fled away

Mordecai Honored

That night the king could not sleep;(A) so he ordered the book of the chronicles,(B) the record of his reign, to be brought in and read to him.

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For then it would be heavier than the sand of the sea—
Therefore my words have been rash.

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It would surely outweigh the sand(A) of the seas—
    no wonder my words have been impetuous.(B)

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