Devine Scripture

Job 7:3

Job chapter 7 · verse 3 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.2As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as a hireling that looketh for his wages:

v.3This passage

v.4When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? And I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 16:7

    But now he hath made me weary: Thou hast made desolate all my company.

  • Job 29:2

    Oh that I were as in the months of old, As in the days when God watched over me;

  • Ecclesiastes 1:14

    I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Psalms 39:5

    Behold, thou hast made my daysas handbreadths; And my life-time is as nothing before thee: Surely every man at his best estate is altogether vanity. [Selah

  • Psalms 6:6

    I am weary with my groaning; Every night make I my bed to swim; I water my couch with my tears.