Job 7:3
I've been given months of emptiness and nights of misery.
Free Bible Version
In The King James Version
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
In Context
2Like some slave longing for a bit of shade, like a hired hand anxiously waiting for pay day,
Cross References
Job 16:7God, you have worn me out. You have destroyed my whole family.
Job 29:2“I wish I was back in the old days when God looked after me!
Psalms 6:7With all my crying I can hardly see; my eyes grow weak because of the trouble my enemies cause me.
Ecclesiastes 1:14I examined everything people do here on earth, and discovered that it's all so temporary—trying to understand it is like trying to pin down 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 →