The Meaning of Job 30:17 Explained

Job 30:17

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

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

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

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

KJV Reverse Interlinear

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

What does Job 30:17 Mean?

Chapter Summary: Job 30

1  Job's honor is turned into extreme contempt
15  and his prosperity into calamity

What do the individual words in Job 30:17 mean?

At night My bones are pierced in me and my gnawing pains no take rest
לַ֗יְלָה עֲ֭צָמַי נִקַּ֣ר מֵעָלָ֑י וְ֝עֹרְקַ֗י לֹ֣א יִשְׁכָּבֽוּן

לַ֗יְלָה  At  night 
Parse: Noun, masculine singular
Root: לַיִל 
Sense: night.
עֲ֭צָמַי  My  bones 
Parse: Noun, feminine plural construct, first person common singular
Root: עֶצֶם 
Sense: bone, essence, substance.
נִקַּ֣ר  are  pierced 
Parse: Verb, Piel, Perfect, third person masculine singular
Root: נָקַר  
Sense: to bore, pick, dig, pick out.
מֵעָלָ֑י  in  me 
Parse: Preposition-m, first person common singular
Root: עַל 
Sense: upon, on the ground of, according to, on account of, on behalf of, concerning, beside, in addition to, together with, beyond, above, over, by, on to, towards, to, against.
וְ֝עֹרְקַ֗י  and  my  gnawing  pains 
Parse: Conjunctive waw, Verb, Qal, Participle, masculine plural construct, first person common singular
Root: עָרַק  
Sense: (Qal) to gnaw, chew.
לֹ֣א  no 
Parse: Adverb, Negative particle
Root: הֲלֹא 
Sense: not, no.
יִשְׁכָּבֽוּן  take  rest 
Parse: Verb, Qal, Imperfect, third person masculine plural, Paragogic nun
Root: שָׁכַב  
Sense: to lie down.