Job 7:3

¹ “Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

² Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.

So I am allotted months of futility, and nights of misery are appointed me.

⁴ When I lie down I think: ‘When will I get up?’ But the night drags on, and I toss and turn until dawn.

⁵ My flesh is clothed with worms and encrusted with dirt; my skin is cracked and festering.

Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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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.
DARBY: So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
BLB: so are allotted to me months of emptiness, and nights of toil are appointed to me.

ÅB: slik har jeg fått i eie måneder fulle av nød, og møyefulle netter er falt i min lodd.
OTB: Så er jeg gitt måneder av fåfengt strev,
Og netter fylt med uro er tildelt meg.
B1930: således har jeg fått i eie måneder fulle av nød, og møiefulle netter er falt i min lodd.

Psalms 6:6
I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
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Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
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Job 16:7
Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
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Job 29:2
“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
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Psalms 39:5
You, 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
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