Job 30:17

“My bones are pierced in me in the night season, etc.] Such was the force of his disease, that it pierced and penetrated even into his bones, and the marrow of them; and such the pain that he endured in the muscles and tendons about them, and especially in the joints of them, that it was as if all his bones were piercing and breaking to pieces; he was in a like condition the sick man is described in (<183319>Job 33:19); and as David and Hezekiah were, (<190602>Psalm 6:2 38:13); and what aggravated his case was, that this was “in the night season”, when he should have got some sleep and rest, but could not for his pain: some render the words by supplying them thus; God, or the disease, or the…”

“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.”

“My bones are pierced in me - The bones are often represented in the Scriptures as the seat of acute pain; Psalms 6:2; Psalms 22:14; Psalms 31:10; Psalms 38:3; Psalms 42:10; Proverbs 14:30; compare Job 20:11. The meaning here is, that he had had shooting or piercing pains in the night, which disturbed and prevented his rest. It is mentioned as a special aggravation of his sufferings that they were “in the night” - a time when we expect repose. And my sinews take no rest - See the word here rendered sinews explained in the note at ver. 3. The word literally means gnawers, and hence, the teeth. The Vulgate renders it, qui me comedunt, non dormiunt, “they who devour me do not slumber.” The…”

“My bones: Job 33:19-21; Psa 6:2-6, Psa 38:2-8 in the night season: Job 7:4; Psa 22:2; Isa 38:13 Job 30:18”