Job 7:3 BSB — MannaFest

Job 7:3

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

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

So am I made to possess - Hebrew I am made to inherit. The meaning is, that such sad and melancholy seasons now were his only portion. Months of vanity - That is, months which were destitute of comfort; in other words, months of affliction. How long his trials had continued before this, we have no means of ascertaining. There is no reason, however, to suppose that his bodily sufferings came upon him all at once, or that they had not continued for a considerable period.

Voices on this verse

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Original language & word study

9 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
כֵּ֤ן	ken	so	H3651 →
הָנְחַ֣לְתִּי	ha.ne.Chal.ti	I have been allotted	H5157 →
לִ֭י	li	for myself
יַרְחֵי־	yar.chei-	months of	H3391 →
שָׁ֑וְא	Shav'	worthlessness	H7723 →
וְלֵיל֥וֹת	ve.lei.Lot	and nights of	H3915 →
עָ֝מָ֗ל	'a.Mal	trouble	H5999 →
מִנּוּ־	mi.nu-	people have allotted	H4487 →
לִֽי׃	Li	to me

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
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.
leads to
- Ecclesiastes 2:11
  Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to…
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Ecclesiastes 2:26
  To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over…
- Ecclesiastes 2:17
  So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 6:9
  Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
Through
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
leads to
- Psalms 144:4
  Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.
- Psalms 89:47
  Remember the briefness of my lifespan! For what futility You have created all men!
- Psalms 90:9–10
  For all our days decline in Your fury; we finish our years with a sigh.
- Psalms 62:9
  Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.

About Job

Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

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01Commentary

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02Original language & word study

03The walk

Where the connections lead

04Related verses

06About Job

Where the connections lead

Commentary

Original language & word study

The walk

Related verses

About Job