Job 7:3
So, have I been made to inherit months of calamity, and, nights of weariness, have been appointed me.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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 bondman, panteth for the shadow, and as, a hireling, longeth for his wage,
Cross References
Job 16:7But, now, hath he wearied me, thou hast destroyed all my family;
Job 29:2Oh that it were with me as in the months of old, as in the days, when, GOD, used to watch over me;
Psalms 6:7My face, is all sunken with sorrow,—it hath aged, because of all mine adversaries.
Ecclesiastes 1:14I saw all the works which were done under the sun,—and lo! all, was vanity, and a feeding on 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 →