Job 7:3
So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.
Bible in Basic English
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 desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:
Cross References
Job 16:7But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
Job 29:2If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!
Psalms 6:7\6:6\The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.
Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for 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 →