“When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.”
Job notes that when he lies down, he thinks when he will arise and that the night is long to him as he is full of tossings until dawn, describing the insomnia and restlessness of extreme suffering. The inability to sleep and the endless tossing represent the way anxiety and pain disrupt the body's natural rhythm. The long night that never seems to end captures the subjective experience of deep despair.
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