Job 7:3
So was I compelled to possess months of vanity, and nights of trouble were counted out unto me.
Leeser Tanakh
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 eagerly longeth for the shadow, and as a hired laborer hopeth for his reward:
Cross References
Job 16:7But now he hath made me weary: thou hast made desolate all my company.
Job 29:2Who will give me back months like those which are past, days like those when God guarded me;
Psalms 6:7(6:8) My eye is consumed because of grief; it waxeth old because of all my assailants.
Ecclesiastes 1:14I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun: and, behold, all is vanity and a torture of the 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 →