Job 7:3
So am I made to possess — months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
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 that eagerly longeth for the shadow, and as a hireling that looketh for his wages;
Cross References
Job 16:7But now He hath made me weary; Thou hast made desolate all my company.
Job 29:2Oh that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
Psalms 6:7(6-8) Mine eye is dimmed because of vexation; it waxeth old because of all mine adversaries.
Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after 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 →