job 30:17 My bones are pierced in me in the night season: and my sinews take no rest.

job 30:17 "At night it pierces my bones within me, And my gnawing [pains] take no rest.

17. In the Hebrew, night is poetically personified, as in Job 3:3: "night pierceth my bones (so that they fall) from me" (not as English Version, "in me"; see Job 30:30).
sinews--so the Arabic, "veins," akin to the Hebrew; rather, "gnawers" (see on Job 30:3), namely, my gnawing pains never cease. Effects of elephantiasis.

job 30:17 "At night it pierces my bones within me, And my gnawing [pains] take no rest.

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