Job 7:3

So am I made to possess months of affliction, And wearisome nights are appointed for me.

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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 panteth for the shade, And as a hireling looketh for his wages,

4If I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of restlessness until the dawning of the day.

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Cross References

Job 16:7For now He hath quite exhausted me; Thou hast desolated all my house!

Job 29:2O that I were as in months past, In the days when God was my guardian;

Psalms 6:7Mine eye is wasted with grief; It hath become old because of all my enemies.

Ecclesiastes 1:14I saw all the things which are done under the sun; and, behold, it was all vanity, and 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 →

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