Job 7:3 Meaning and Explanation
“So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.”
King James Version (KJV)
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What Does Job 7:3 Mean?
Drawing the comparison home, Job describes his own portion: not wages or rest, but months of emptiness and nights heavy with pain. The word he chooses for 'possess' is the language of inheritance, as if misery were the estate handed to him.
Here is grief that feels assigned, even allotted. Job does not pretend otherwise, and Scripture honors his candor. Faith does not require us to call darkness light. It allows the sufferer to name the long nights truthfully while still speaking to the God who keeps watch through them and who has not forgotten the one who waits for morning.
Job 7:3 in the Original Language
shav (שָׁוְא), 'vanity' -- emptiness, that which is hollow and comes to nothing.
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What does Job 7:3 mean?
Job says his inheritance has become empty months and exhausting nights of suffering.