English Standard Version
Job 7:3
3so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
Job 7:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
- New International Version (NIV)so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.
- New King James Version (NKJV)So I have been allotted months of futility, And wearisome nights have been appointed to me.
- New Living Translation (NLT)I, too, have been assigned months of futility, long and weary nights of misery.
Context of Job 7:3
1"Has not man a hard service on earth, and are not his days like the days of a hired hand? 2Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hired hand who looks for his wages, so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me. 4When I lie down I say, 'When shall I arise?' But the night is long, and I am full of tossing till the dawn. 5My flesh is clothed with worms and dirt; my skin hardens, then breaks out afresh.
Read all of Job 7Job 7:3 word by word
כֵּ֤ן הָנְחַ֣לְתִּי לִ֭י יַרְחֵי־שָׁ֑וְא וְלֵיל֥וֹת עָ֝מָ֗ל מִנּוּ־לִֽי׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Job 7:3
- Job 29:2"Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me,
- Psalms 6:6I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.
- Psalms 39:5Behold, you have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before you. Surely all mankind stands as a mere breath! Selah
- Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Commentaries on Job 7:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3So am I made to possess - But night is no relief to me, it is only a continuance of my anxiety and labor. I am like the hireling, I have my appointed labor 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.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3So 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…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3Job's testing might have lasted for months. The Hebrew word ('amal) appears throughout Job and means "misery" or "miserable" or "trouble" (3:20; 11:16; 16:2; 20:22; 3:10; 4:8; 5:6, 7; 15:35).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-211. appointed time--better, "a warfare," hard conflict with evil (so in Is 40:2; Da 10:1). Translate it "appointed time" (Job 14:14). Job reverts to the sad picture of man, however great, which he had drawn (Job 3:14), and details in this chapter the miseries which his friends will see, if, according to his request (Job 6:28), they will look on him. Even the Christian soldier, "warring a good warfare," rejoices when it is completed (1Ti 1:18; 2Ti 2:3; 4:7…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Job 7
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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