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Job 7:3
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KJ21
so am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
ASV
So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.
AMP
So am I allotted months of futility and suffering, And [long] nights of trouble and misery are appointed to me.
AMPC
So am I allotted months of futile [suffering], and [long] nights of misery are appointed to me.
BRG
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
CSB
So I have been made to inherit months of futility, and troubled nights have been assigned to me.
CSBA
So I have been made to inherit months of futility, and troubled nights have been assigned to me.
CEB
So I have inherited months of emptiness; nights of toil have been measured out for me.
CJB
So I am assigned months of meaninglessness; troubled nights are my lot.
CEV
God has made my days drag on and my nights miserable.
DARBY
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
DRA
So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights.
ERV
Month after frustrating month has gone by. I have suffered night after night.
EASY
But there is nothing for me to wait for. I wait for many months and nothing happens. Every night, I am always sad.
EHV
In the same way, I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of agony have been assigned to me.
ESV
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
ESVUK
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
EXB
But I ·am given [L inherit] months that are ·empty [vain; futile], and nights of ·misery [or toil] have been ·given [L allotted] to me.
GNV
So have I had as an inheritance the months of vanity, and painful nights have been appointed unto me.
GW
Likewise, I have been given months that are of no use, and I have inherited nights filled with misery.
GNT
Month after month I have nothing to live for; night after night brings me grief.
HCSB
So I have been made to inherit months of futility, and troubled nights have been assigned to me.
ICB
But I am given months that are empty. Nights of misery have been given to me.
ISV
Truly I’ve been allotted months of emptiness; nights of trouble have been appointed for me.
JUB
so I am made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
KJV
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
AKJV
so am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
LSB
So am I apportioned months of worthlessness, And nights of trouble are appointed me.
LEB
So I had to inherit months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
TLB
And so to me also have been allotted months of frustration, these long and weary nights.
MSG
“Human life is a struggle, isn’t it? It’s a life sentence to hard labor. Like field hands longing for quitting time and working stiffs with nothing to hope for but payday, I’m given a life that meanders and goes nowhere— months of aimlessness, nights of misery! I go to bed and think, ‘How long till I can get up?’ I toss and turn as the night drags on—and I’m fed up! I’m covered with maggots and scabs. My skin gets scaly and hard, then oozes with pus. My days come and go swifter than the click of knitting needles, and then the yarn runs out—an unfinished life!
MEV
so I have been assigned months of futility, and nights of trouble have been appointed to me.
NOG
Likewise, I have been given months that are of no use, and I have inherited nights filled with misery.
NABRE
So I have been assigned months of futility, and troubled nights have been counted off for me.
NASB
So I am allotted worthless months, And nights of trouble are apportioned to me.
NASB1995
So am I allotted months of vanity, And nights of trouble are appointed me.
NCB
so have I been forced to endure months of futility, and nights of grief have been inflicted on me.
NCV
But I am given months that are empty, and nights of misery have been given to me.
NET
thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.
NIRV
I’ve been given several months that were useless to me. My nights have been filled with suffering.
NIV
so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.
NIVUK
so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.
NKJV
So I have been allotted months of futility, And wearisome nights have been appointed to me.
NLV
I am given months of pain and nights of suffering for no reason.
NLT
I, too, have been assigned months of futility, long and weary nights of misery.
NRSVA
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
NRSVACE
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
NRSVCE
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
NRSVUE
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
OJB
So am I made to possess months of shav (vanity, futility), and lailot amal (nights of weariness) are appointed to me.
RGT
“so I have inherited months of emptiness. And painful nights have been appointed to me.
RSV
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
RSVCE
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
TLV
so I have inherited months of futility, and nights of distress have been appointed to me.
VOICE
So I am destined to receive only months of meaninglessness, and nights of nothing but misery.
WEB
so I am made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
WYC
so I have had void months (so I have had empty months), and I have numbered travailous nights to me.
YLT
So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.
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