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Job Continues: Life Seems Futile

Job 7:3

In 11 translations

BSB
So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.
KJV
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
WEB
so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
ASV
So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.
LSV
So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, || And they numbered nights of misery to me.
YLT
So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.
DBY
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
DRC
So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights.
GNV
So haue I had as an inheritance the moneths of vanitie, and painefull nights haue bene appointed vnto me.
JPS
So am I made to possess — months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
LXXE
So have I also endured months of vanity, and nights of pain have been appointed me.

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Original-language editions

WLC
כֵּ֤ן הָנְחַ֣לְתִּי לִ֭י יַרְחֵי־שָׁ֑וְא וְלֵיל֥וֹת עָ֝מָ֗ל מִנּוּ־לִֽי׃
LXX-Br
Οὕτως κᾀγὼ ὑπέμεινα μῆνας κενοὺς, νύκτες δὲ ὀδυνῶν δεδομέναι μοι εἰσίν.

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 6:6I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
  • Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
  • Job 29:2“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
  • Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
  • Job 16:7Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.

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