So I have been made to inherit months of futility, and troubled nights have been assigned to me.
So am I made to possess months of vanity, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.
So am I allotted months of futile [suffering], and [long] nights of misery are appointed to me.
So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.
So I have inherited months of emptiness; nights of toil have been measured out for me.
so also have I had empty months and have counted my burdensome nights.
So I also have had empty months, and have numbered to myself wearisome nights.
Surely he has now exhausted me. You have devastated my entire family.
He will certainly accomplish what he has decreed for me, and he has many more things like these in mind.
If only I could be as in months gone by, in the days when God watched over me,
Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hired worker he waits for his pay.
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun and have found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind. ,