Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Holman Bible
and troubled nights have been assigned to me.
International Standard Version
Truly I've been allotted months of emptiness; nights of trouble have been appointed for me.
A Conservative Version
so I am made to possess months of misery, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
American Standard Version
So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Amplified
So am I allotted months of futility and suffering,
And [long] nights of trouble and misery are appointed to me.
Darby Translation
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Julia Smith Translation
So was I caused to possess to me months of vanity, and nights of toil were allotted to me.
King James 2000
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So {I had to inherit} months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
Modern King James verseion
so I am made to possess months of vanity, and weary nights are appointed to me.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Even so have I laboured whole months long - but in vain - and many a careful night have I told.
NET Bible
thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.
New Heart English Bible
so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
The Emphasized Bible
So, have I been made to inherit months of calamity, and, nights of weariness, have been appointed me.
Webster
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
World English Bible
so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
Youngs Literal Translation
So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.
Themes
Employee » Character of unrighteous
Life » Sacredness of, an inference from what is taught in the law concerning murder » Weary of » Job
Interlinear
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References
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 7:3
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
2 As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment: 3 So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me. 4 When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.
Cross References
Psalm 6:6
The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.
Job 16:7
But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
Job 29:2
If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!
Psalm 39:5
You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.