Job 7:3

Bible in Basic English (1941)

So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.

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Referenced Verses

  • Ps 6:6 : 6 The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.
  • Ps 39:5 : 5 You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)
  • Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.
  • Job 16:7 : 7 But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.
  • Job 29:2 : 2 If only I might again be as I was in the months which are past, in the days when God was watching over me!

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  • Job 7:4-7
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    4When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.

    5My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.

    6My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

    7O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.

  • Job 7:1-2
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    1Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

    2As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:

  • Job 16:7
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    7But now he has overcome me with weariness and fear, and I am in the grip of all my trouble.

  • Lam 3:5-7
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    5He has put up a wall against me, shutting me in with bitter sorrow.

    6He has kept me in dark places, like those who have been long dead.

    7He has put a wall round me, so that I am not able to go out; he has made great the weight of my chain.

  • Ps 6:6-7
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    6The voice of my sorrow is a weariness to me; all the night I make my bed wet with weeping; it is watered by the drops flowing from my eyes.

    7My eyes are wasting away with trouble; they are becoming old because of all those who are against me.

  • Gen 31:40
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    40This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.

  • Job 3:6-7
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    6That night--let the thick dark take it; let it not have joy among the days of the year; let it not come into the number of the months.

    7As for that night, let it have no fruit; let no voice of joy be sounded in it;

  • Job 7:11-13
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    11So I will not keep my mouth shut; I will let the words come from it in the pain of my spirit, my soul will make a bitter outcry.

    12Am I a sea, or a sea-beast, that you put a watch over me?

    13When I say, In my bed I will have comfort, there I will get rest from my disease;

  • Job 30:16-17
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    16But now my soul is turned to water in me, days of trouble overtake me:

    17The flesh is gone from my bones, and they give me no rest; there is no end to my pains.

  • Eccl 2:23
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    23All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.

  • Job 7:16
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    16I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.

  • Job 17:11-13
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    73%

    11My days are past, my purposes are broken off, even the desires of my heart.

    12They are changing night into day; they say, The light is near the dark.

    13If I am waiting for the underworld as my house, if I have made my bed in the dark;

  • Job 10:20
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    20Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

  • Job 17:6-7
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    6He has made me a word of shame to the peoples; I have become a mark for their sport.

    7My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.

  • Lam 3:1-3
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    1I am the man who has seen trouble by the rod of his wrath.

    2By him I have been made to go in the dark where there is no light.

    3Truly against me his hand has been turned again and again all the day.

  • Job 3:3
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    3Let destruction take the day of my birth, and the night on which it was said, A man child has come into the world.

  • Isa 38:12-13
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    12My resting-place is pulled up and taken away from me like a herdsman's tent: my life is rolled up like a linen-worker's thread; I am cut off from the cloth on the frame: from day even to night you give me up to pain.

    13I am crying out with pain till the morning; it is as if a lion was crushing all my bones.

  • Job 3:20
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    20Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;

  • Ps 31:10
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    10My life goes on in sorrow, and my years in weeping; my strength is almost gone because of my sin, and my bones are wasted away.

  • Job 7:20-21
    2 verses
    71%

    20If I have done wrong, what have I done to you, O keeper of men? why have you made me a mark for your blows, so that I am a weariness to myself?

    21And why do you not take away my sin, and let my wrongdoing be ended? for now I go down to the dust, and you will be searching for me with care, but I will be gone.

  • Ps 73:14
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    14For I have been troubled all the day; every morning have I undergone punishment.

  • Job 29:3
    71%

    3When his light was shining over my head, and when I went through the dark by his light.

  • Job 17:1
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    1My spirit is broken, my days are ended, the last resting-place is ready for me.

  • Lam 3:11
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    11By him my ways have been turned on one side and I have been pulled in bits; he has made me waste.

  • Job 3:16
    71%

    16Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

  • Ps 143:3-4
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    3The evil man has gone after my soul; my life is crushed down to the earth: he has put me in the dark, like those who have long been dead.

    4Because of this my spirit is overcome; and my heart is full of fear.

  • Job 23:17
    70%

    17For I am overcome by the dark, and by the black night which is covering my face.

  • Job 3:13
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    13For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,

  • Job 3:9
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    9Let its morning stars be dark; let it be looking for light, but may it not have any; let it not see the eyes of the dawn.

  • Job 14:13
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    13If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

  • Job 30:19
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    19Truly God has made me low, even to the earth, and I have become like dust.