Job 7:3

so I am made to possess months of misery, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

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In The King James Version

So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

In Context

2As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling who looks for his wages,

4When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossing to and fro to the dawning of the day.

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Cross References

Job 16:7But now he has made me weary. Thou have made desolate all my company.

Job 29:2O that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me,

Psalms 6:7My eye wastes away because of grief. It grows old because of all my adversaries.

Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Matthew Henry on Job 7:2-7

Job's Reply to Eliphaz. ( b. c. 1520.) 1 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling? 2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work: 3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me. 4 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. 5 My flesh is clothed with worms and clods of dust; my… Read the whole commentary →

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