Bible in Basic English
"So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me."
— Job 7:3, Bible in Basic English
“So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.”
“So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me. ”
“so am I made to possess months of misery, wearisome nights are appointed to me.”
“thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.”
“So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights.”
“So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.”
Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?
As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:
So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.
When 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.
My flesh is covered with worms and dust; my skin gets hard and then is cracked again.
My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.