Job 7:3

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

Darby Translation

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 bondman earnestly desireth the shadow, and a hireling expecteth his wages,

4If I lie down, I say, When shall I rise up, and the darkness be gone? and I am full of tossings until the dawn.

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Cross References

Job 16:7But now he hath made me weary; thou hast made desolate all my family;

Job 29:2Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

Psalms 6:7Mine eye wasteth away through grief; it hath grown old because of all mine oppressors.

Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and pursuit of the 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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