Job 7:3

so also have I had empty months and have counted my burdensome nights.

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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

2Just as a servant desires the shade, and just as the hired hand looks forward to the end of his work,

4If I lie down to sleep, I will say, “When will I rise?” And next I will hope for the evening and will be filled with sorrows even until darkness.

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Cross References

Job 16:7But what can I do? When I am speaking, my grief will not be quiet; and if I am quiet, it will not withdraw from me.

Job 29:2Who will grant to me that I might be as I was in former months, according to the days when God kept watch over me?

Psalms 6:7I have labored in my groaning. Every night, with my tears, I will wash my bed and drench my blanket.

Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all that is done under the sun, and behold: all is emptiness and an affliction of the spirit.

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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