Job 7:3

So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, || And they numbered nights of misery to me.

Literal Standard Version

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 desires the shadow, || And as a hired worker expects his wage,

4If I lay down, then I have said, When do I rise, || And evening has been measured? And I have been full of tossings until dawn.

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Cross References

Job 16:7Only, now, it has wearied me; You have desolated all my company,

Job 29:2“Who makes me as [in] months past, || As [in] the days of God’s preserving me?

Psalms 6:7My eye is old from provocation, || It is old because of all my adversaries,

Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and behold, the whole [is] vanity and distress 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 →

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