Job 7:3

So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.

Berean Standard Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.

4When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.

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Cross References

Job 16:7Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

Job 29:2“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,

Psalms 6:7My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.

Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a 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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