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Job 7:3
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So I have been made to inherit months of futility,and troubled nights have been assigned to me.
So am I made to possess months of misery, Wearisome nights are appointed to me.
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
But I am given months that are empty, and nights of misery have been given to me.
thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.
So am I allotted months of futility and suffering, And [long] nights of trouble and misery are appointed to me.
So I am allotted worthless months, And nights of trouble are apportioned to me.
So am I made to possess months of misery, Wearisome nights are appointed to me.
So haue I had as an inheritance the moneths of vanitie, and painefull nights haue bene appointed vnto me.
So am I apportioned months of worthlessness,And nights of trouble are appointed me.
So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.
God has made my days drag on and my nights miserable.
So I am assigned months of meaninglessness; troubled nights are my lot.
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Month after frustrating month has gone by. I have suffered night after night.
So have I inherited months of vanity, and wearisome nights are meted out to me.
Month after month I have nothing to live for; night after night brings me grief.
So I had to inherit months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
so I am caused to inherit months of emptiness; and weary nights are appointed to me.
Euen so haue I laboured whole monethes longe (but in vayne) and many a carefull night haue I tolde.
So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.
So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.
Euen so haue I laboured whole monethes long in vayne, and many a carefull night haue I tolde.
So am I made to possess--months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
So am I made to possesse moneths of vanitie, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me.
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
so and Y hadde voide monethis, and Y noumbrede trauailous niytes to me.
So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
So I have been allotted months of futility, And wearisome nights have been appointed to me.
I, too, have been assigned months of futility, long and weary nights of misery.
I am given months of pain and nights of suffering for no reason.
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
So, have I been made to inherit months of calamity, and, nights of weariness, have been appointed me.
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.
So am I allotted months of vanity, And nights of trouble are appointed me.
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months of: Job 29:2, Psalms 6:6, Psalms 39:5, Ecclesiastes 1:14
Reciprocal: Deuteronomy 28:67 - General Job 7:13 - My bed Job 16:7 - he hath Job 17:12 - change Job 23:14 - appointed Psalms 73:14 - For all Isaiah 38:12 - he will cut Lamentations 1:2 - weepeth
Gill's Notes on the Bible
So am I made to possess months of vanity,.... This is not a reddition or application of the above similes of the servant and hireling, Job 7:1; for that is to be understood, and to be supplied at the end of Job 7:2; that as those looked for the shadow and payment of hire, so Job looked for and earnestly desired death, or to be removed out of the world; besides, the things here instanced in do not answer; for Job, instead of having the refreshing shadow, had months of vanity, and instead of rest from his labours had nothing but wearisome nights, and continual tossings to and fro; whereas the sleep of a labouring man is sweet to him; and having laboured hard all day, the night is a time of rest to him; but so it was not with Job; wherefore this "so" refers to the common state and condition of mankind, in which Job was, with an addition of extraordinary afflictions upon him: the time of his afflictions, though but short, seemed long, and therefore is expressed by months; and some months might have passed from the time his calamities began to the present; since it must be some time before his friends heard of them, and more still before they could meet together and agree upon their coming, and were actually come to him; as also some time was spent in silence, and now in conversation with him; the Jews p make them to be twelve months: and these months were "months of vanity", or "empty" q ones; such as winter months, empty of all joy, and peace, and comfort; times in which he had no pleasure, no ease of body or of mind; destitute of the good things of life, and of the presence of God and communion with him; and full of trouble, sorrow, and distress: and these were "given him for an inheritance" r; were his lot and portion, which he received as an inheritance from his parents, in consequence of original sin, the source of all the troubles and miseries of human life, in common with other men; and which were allotted him by his heavenly Father, according to his sovereign will and pleasure, as all the afflictions of the Lord's people are the inheritance bequeathed them by their Father, and the legacy of their Redeemer:
and wearisome nights are appointed to me; one after another, in succession; in which he could have no sleep nor rest, through pain of body and distress of mind; and so became the more weary, through long lying down and tossings to and fro, through groans and tears, and much watching; and these were prepared for him in the purposes of God, and appointed to him in his counsels and decrees; see Job 23:14; or they "prepared" or "appointed" s; that is, "Elohim", the three Divine Persons.
p Vid. Misn. Ediot, c. 2. sect. 10. R. Simeon Bar Tzemach, in loc. q ירחי שוא "menses vacuos", V. L. so Tigurine version, Michaelis. r הנחלתי "accepi hereditate", Pagninus, Montanus, Bolducius so Cocceius, Schmidt, Schultens. s מנו לי "constituerunt mihi", Pagninus, Bolducius; "mihi paraverunt", Mercerus; so Schmidt, Cocceius, Schultens.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
So am I made to possess - Hebrew I am made to inherit. The meaning is, that such sad and melancholy seasons now were his only portion.
Months of vanity - That is, months which were destitute of comfort; in other words, months of affliction. How long his trials had continued before this, we have no means of ascertaining. There is no reason, however, to suppose that his bodily sufferings came upon him all at once, or that they had not continued for a considerable period. It is quite probable that his expressions of impatience were the result not only of the intensity, but the continuance of his sorrows.
And wearisome nights are appointed to me - Even his rest was disturbed. The time when care is usually forgotten and toil ceases, was to him a period of sleepless anxiety and distress - עמל ‛âmâl. The Septuagint renders it, nights of pangs (νύκτες ὀδυνῶν nuktes odunōn), expressing accurately the sense of the Hebrew. The Hebrew word עמל ‛âmâl is commonly applied to intense sorrow, to trouble and pain of the severest kind, such as the pains of parturition; see the notes at Isaiah 53:11.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Job 7:3. So am I made to possess — But night is no relief to me, it is only a continuance of my anxiety and labour. I am like the hireling, I have my appointed labour for the day. I am like the soldier harassed by the enemy: I am obliged to be continually on the watch, always on the look out, with scarcely any rest.
