Job 7:3

so I have been made to endure months of misery; 1 I have been given trouble-filled nights. 1

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So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

In Context

2Like a slave earnestly desires the shadows of evening, 1 like a hired man looks for his wages— 1

4When I lie down, I say to myself, 1 'When will I get up and when will the night be gone?' 1 I am full of tossing to and fro until the day's dawning. 1

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Cross References

Job 16:7But now, God, you have made me weary; 1 you have made all my family desolate. 1

Job 29:2“Oh, that I were as I was in the past months 1 when God cared for me, 1

Psalms 6:7My eyes grow dim from grief; 1 they grow weak because of all my adversaries. 1

Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the deeds that are done under the sun, and look, they all amount to vapor and chasing the wind. 1

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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