Job 7:3
So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights.
Douay-Rheims 1899
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 longeth for the shade, as the hireling looketh for the end of his work;
Cross References
Job 16:7But what shall I do? If I speak, my pain will not rest: and if I hold my peace, it will not depart from me.
Job 29:2Who will grant me, that I might be according to the months past, according to the days in which God kept me?
Psalms 6:7I have laboured in my groanings, every night I will wash my bed: I will water my couch with my tears.
Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity, and vexation of 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 →