Job 7:4

“When I lie down, I say, when shall I arise, etc.] Or, “then I say”, etc. f294; that is, as soon as he laid himself down in his bed, and endeavoured to compose himself to sleep, in order to get rest and refreshment; then he said within himself, or with an articulate voice, to those about him, that sat up with him; oh that it was time to rise; when will it be morning, that I may rise from my bed, which is of no manner of service to me, but rather increases weariness? and the night be gone? and the day dawn and break; or “night” or “evening be measured”, as in the margin, or “measures itself” f295; or that “he”, that is, God, or “it”, my heart, “measures the evening” f296, or “night”; lengthens…”

“Literally, "When shall be the flight of the night?" [GESENIUS]. UMBREIT, not so well, "The night is long extended"; literally, "measured out" (so Margin).”

“When I lie down - I find no comfort and no rest on my bed. My nights are long, and I am impatient to have them passed, and equally so is it with the day. This is a description which all can understand who have been laid on a bed of pain. And the night be gone - Margin, evening be measured. Herder renders this, “the night is irksome to me.” The word rendered night (ערב ‛ereb) properly means the early part of the night, until it is succeeded by the dawn. Thus, in Genesis 1:5,” And the evening (ערב ‛ereb) and the morning were the first day.” Here it means the portion of the night which is before the dawning of the aurora - the night. The word rendered “be gone” and in the margin “be measured” (…”

“When: Job 7:13, Job 7:14, Job 17:12, Job 30:17; Deu 28:67; Psa 6:6, Psa 77:4, Psa 130:6 night: etc. Heb. evening be measured tossings: Psa 109:23; Isa 54:11 Job 7:5”

“4 If I lie down, I think: When shall I arise and the evening break away? And I become weary with tossing to and fro unto the morning dawn. 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of earth; My skin heals up to fester again. 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, And vanish without hope. Most modern commentators take מדּד as Piel from מדד: the night is extended (Renan: la nuit se prolonge), which is possible; comp. Ges. 52, 2. But the metre suggests another rendering: מדּד constr. of מדּד from נדד, to flee away: and when fleeing away of the evening. The night is described by its commencement, the late evening, to make the long interval of the sleeplessness and restlessness of the…”