King James Version

Job 30:17

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

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לַ֗יְלָהlaylahnightלַיִלnoun, common, masculine, singular, absolute — “night”, the ordinary formH3915properly, a twist (away of the light), i.e. night; figuratively, adversity(mid-)night (season).עֲ֭צָמַיatsamaybodyעֶצֶםnoun, common, feminine, plural, construct, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, singular — “body”, the of-form, joined to the next wordH6106a bone (as strong); by extension, the body; figuratively, the substance, i.e. (as pron.) selfsamebody, bone, [idiom] life, (self-) same, strength, [idiom] very.נִקַּ֣רniqarpick outנָקַרverb, piel, perfect, 3rd person, masculine, singular — “pick out”, a completed actionH5365to bore (penetrate, quarry)dig, pick out, pierce, put (thrust) out.מֵעָלָ֑יmealayfrom aboveעַלpreposition, preposition, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, singular — “from above”H5921above, over, upon, or against (yet always in this last relation with a downward aspect) in a great variety of applicationsabove, according to(-ly), after, (as) against, among, and, [idiom] as, at, because of, beside (the rest of), between, beyond the time, [idiom] both and, by (reason of), [idiom] had the charge of, concerning for, in (that), (forth, out) of,…וְ֝עֹרְקַ֗יveoreqayand fleeingעָרַקconjunction, verb, qal, participle, construct, suffix, pronominal, 1st person, common, singular — “and fleeing”, a verb used as a describing wordH6207to gnaw, i.e. (figuratively) eat (by hyberbole); also (participle) a painfleeing, sinew.לֹ֣אlono , -r,לֹאparticle, negative — “no , -r,”H3808not (the simple or abs. negation); by implication, no; often used with other particles[idiom] before, [phrase] or else, ere, [phrase] except, ig(-norant), much, less, nay, neither, never, no((-ne), -r, (-thing)), ([idiom] as though...,(can-), for) not (out of), of nought, otherwise, out of, [phrase] surely, [phrase] as trul…יִשְׁכָּבֽוּןyishkavunlieשָׁכַבverb, qal, imperfect, 3rd person, masculine, plural, paragogic nun — “lie”, an unfinished actionH7901to lie down (for rest, sexual connection, decease or any other purpose)[idiom] at all, cast down, (lover-)lay (self) (down), (make to) lie (down, down to sleep, still with), lodge, ravish, take rest, sleep, stay.

Jewish translation (JPS 1917)

In the night my bones are pierced, and fall from me, and my sinews take no rest.

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American Standard Version (1901)

In the night season my bones are pierced in me, And the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

Young’s Literal Translation

At night my bone hath been pierced in me, And mine eyelids do not lie down.

World English Bible

In the night season my bones are pierced in me, and the pains that gnaw me take no rest.

Darby Translation

The night pierceth through my bones [and detacheth them] from me, and my gnawing pains take no rest:

Douay-Rheims

In the night my bone is pierced with sorrows: and they that feed upon me, do not sleep.

Jewish Publication Society (1917)

In the night my bones are pierced, and fall from me, and my sinews take no rest.

Brenton’s Septuagint (1851), English

And by night my bones are confounded; and my sinews are relaxed.

Septuagint (Brenton’s Greek, 1851)

Νυκτὶ δέ μου τὰ ὀστᾶ συγκέχυται, τὰ δὲ νεῦρά μου διαλέλυται.