Job 7:3
New International Version
so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.

New Living Translation
I, too, have been assigned months of futility, long and weary nights of misery.

English Standard Version
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

Berean Standard Bible
So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.

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

New King James Version
So I have been allotted months of futility, And wearisome nights have been appointed to me.

New American Standard Bible
So I am allotted worthless months, And nights of trouble are apportioned to me.

NASB 1995
So am I allotted months of vanity, And nights of trouble are appointed me.

NASB 1977
So am I allotted months of vanity, And nights of trouble are appointed me.

Legacy Standard Bible
So am I apportioned months of worthlessness, And nights of trouble are appointed me.

Amplified Bible
So am I allotted months of futility and suffering, And [long] nights of trouble and misery are appointed to me.

Christian Standard Bible
So I have been made to inherit months of futility, and troubled nights have been assigned to me.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
So I have been made to inherit months of futility, and troubled nights have been assigned to me.

American Standard Version
So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
In this way I have inherited for myself worthless months, and I had countless nights of pain

Brenton Septuagint Translation
So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me.

Contemporary English Version
God has made my days drag on and my nights miserable.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Likewise, I have been given months that are of no use, and I have inherited nights filled with misery.

Good News Translation
Month after month I have nothing to live for; night after night brings me grief.

International Standard Version
Truly I've been allotted months of emptiness; nights of trouble have been appointed for me.

JPS Tanakh 1917
So am I made to possess--months of vanity, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

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

Majority Standard Bible
So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.

New American Bible
So I have been assigned months of futility, and troubled nights have been counted off for me.

NET Bible
thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.

New Revised Standard Version
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

New Heart English Bible
so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

Webster's Bible Translation
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

World English Bible
so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.

Young's Literal Translation
So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.

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Context
Job Continues: Life Seems Futile
2Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages. 3So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me. 4When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.…

Cross References
Job 7:2
Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.

Job 16:7
Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.


Treasury of Scripture

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

months of.

Job 29:2
Oh that I were as in months past, as in the days when God preserved me;

Psalm 6:6
I am weary with my groaning; all the night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.

Psalm 39:5
Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.

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Job 7
1. Job excuses his desire of death.
12. He complains of his own restlessness, and reasons with God.














Verse 3. - So am I made to possess months of vanity. "Months of vanity" are "months of which he can make no use " - "months which are no good to him." It has been concluded from this theft some considerable time had elapsed since Job was stricken by his disease. But he is perhaps looking to the future as much as to the past, anticipating a long, lingering illness. Elephantiasis is a disease which often lasts for years. And wearisome nights are appointed to me. To one stretched on a bed of sickness, the night is always more wearisome than the day. It has no changes, nothing to mark its flight. It seems almost interminable. In elephantiasis, however, it is a special feature of the disease that the sufferings of the patient are greatest at night. "In elephantiasis ansesthetica" says Dr. Erasmus Wilson, "a sense of dulness and heat pervades the surface, and there are sensations of tingling and prickling, and of burning heat. While the integument is insensible, there are deep-seated burning pains, sometimes of a bone or joint, sometimes of the vertebral column. These pains are greatest at night; they prevent sleep, and give rise to restlessness and frightful dreams" (Quain's 'Dictionary of Medicine,' vol. 1. p. 817).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
So
כֵּ֤ן (kên)
Adverb
Strong's 3651: So -- thus

I am allotted
הָנְחַ֣לְתִּי (hā·nə·ḥal·tî)
Verb - Hofal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 5157: To inherit, to occupy, to bequeath, distribute, instate

months
יַרְחֵי־ (yar·ḥê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3391: A lunation, month

of futility,
שָׁ֑וְא (šāw)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 7723: Evil, idolatry, uselessness

and nights
וְלֵיל֥וֹת (wə·lê·lō·wṯ)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3915: A twist, night, adversity

of misery
עָ֝מָ֗ל (‘ā·māl)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5999: Toil, wearing effort, worry, wheth, of body, mind

are appointed
מִנּוּ־ (min·nū-)
Verb - Piel - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's 4487: To weigh out, to allot, constitute officially, to enumerate, enroll

me.
לִֽי׃ (lî)
Preposition | first person common singular
Strong's Hebrew


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