Job 7:3

BSB · Public Domain (CC0)

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

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BSBPD

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

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

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

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

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

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 7:3 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Job 16:7Surely He has now exhausted me; You have devastated all my family.
  2. Job 23:14For He carries out His decree against me, and He has many such plans.
  3. Job 29:2“How I long for the months gone by, for the days when God watched over me,
  4. Psalms 6:6I am weary from groaning; all night I flood my bed with weeping and drench my couch with tears.
  5. Psalms 6:7My eyes fail from grief; they grow dim because of all my foes.
  6. 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
  7. 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.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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