When I say, My bed shall comfort me, my couch shall ease my complaint;
In its setting in Job 7:11-16, the verse belongs to Job's open speech uttered from intense anguish over his bitterness and weariness of life. It voices his longing for relief in sleep, hoping his bed would comfort him and his couch would ease his complaint, even to the point of preferring death. This complaint expresses suffering rather than a final loss of trust, for he afterward rises to confidence in God's mercy and saving power.
In its setting in Job 7:11-16, the verse belongs to Job's open speech uttered from intense anguish over his bitterness and weariness of life. It voices his longing for relief in sleep, hoping his bed would comfort him and his couch would ease his complaint, even to the point of preferring death. This complaint expresses suffering rather than a final loss of trust, for he afterward rises to confidence in God's mercy and saving power.