I reckoned till morning
Or, "I set my time till the morning F13"; he fixed and settled it in his mind that he could live no longer than to the morning, if he lived so long; he thought he should have died before the night came on, and, now it was come, the utmost he could propose to himself was to live till morning; that was the longest time he could reckon of. According to the accents, it should be rendered, "I reckoned till morning as a lion"; or "I am like until the morning as a lion"; or, "I likened until the morning (God) as a lion"; I compared him to one; which agrees with what follows. The Targum is,
``I roared until morning, as a lion roars;''through the force of the disease, and the pain he was in: or rather,
``I laid my bones together until the morning as a lion; "so indeed as a lion God" hath broken all my bones F14:''so will he break all my bones;