so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned 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 now God has worn me out; he has made desolate all my company.
For he will complete what he appoints for me; and many such things are in his mind.
“Oh, that I were as in the months of old, as in the days when God watched over me;
Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like laborers who look for their wages,
You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing in your sight. Surely everyone stands as a mere breath. Selah
I am weary with my moaning; every night I flood my bed with tears; I drench my couch with my weeping.
My eyes waste away because of grief; they grow weak because of all my foes.
I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun; and see, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.