Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
So was I caused to possess to me months of vanity, and nights of toil were allotted 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.
Bible in Basic English
So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.
Darby Translation
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed 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
Nachal
`amal
Layil
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 the servant will gape for the shadow, and as the hireling will wait for his work: 3 So was I caused to possess to me months of vanity, and nights of toil were allotted to me. 4 If I lay down, and I said, When shall I arise, and the evening be measured? And I was filled with tossings even to the twilight
Cross References
Psalm 6:6
I was wearied with my sighing all the night I shall make my bed to swim with my tears; I shall make my couch to flow.
Job 16:7
But now he made me weary: thou hast made desolate all mine assembly.
Job 29:2
Who will give me as the months of old, as the days God will watch me?
Psalm 39:5
Behold, thou gavest my days a hand-breadth, and my life as nothing before thee: but every man stood all vanity. Silence.
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I saw all the works they did under the sun; and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit