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sic et ego habui menses vacuos et noctes laboriosas enumeravi mihi
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
so am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
So I have been allotted months of futility, And wearisome nights have been appointed to me.
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 vanity, and wearisome nights are 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.
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
Likewise, I have been given months that are of no use, and I have inherited nights filled with misery.
So I have been made to inherit months of futility, and troubled nights have been assigned to me.
Truly I've been allotted months of emptiness; nights of trouble have been appointed for me.
thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.
So am I allotted months of vanity, And nights of trouble are appointed me.
so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.
I, too, have been assigned months of futility, long and weary nights of misery.
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, wearisome nights are appointed to me.
But there is nothing for me to wait for. I wait for many months and nothing happens. Every night, I am always sad.
So I have been caused to inherit months of vanity, And nights of misery they numbered to me.
I am given months of pain and nights of suffering for no reason.
So I am destined to receive only months of meaninglessness, and nights of nothing but misery.
And so to me also have been allotted months of frustration, these long and weary nights.
so have I been forced to endure months of futility, and nights of grief have been inflicted on me.
So am I apportioned months of worthlessness, And nights of trouble are appointed me.
so I am made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
So I have been made to inherit months of futility, and troubled nights have been assigned to me.
So am I allotted months of futile [suffering], and [long] nights of misery are appointed to me.
But I am given months that are empty, and nights of misery have been given to me.
“Human life is a struggle, isn’t it? It’s a life sentence to hard labor. Like field hands longing for quitting time and working stiffs with nothing to hope for but payday, I’m given a life that meanders and goes nowhere— months of aimlessness, nights of misery! I go to bed and think, ‘How long till I can get up?’ I toss and turn as the night drags on—and I’m fed up! I’m covered with maggots and scabs. My skin gets scaly and hard, then oozes with pus. My days come and go swifter than the click of knitting needles, and then the yarn runs out—an unfinished life!
In the same way, I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of agony have been assigned to me.
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
Month after month I have nothing to live for; night after night brings me grief.
so I have had void months (so I have had empty months), and I have numbered travailous nights to me.
God has made my days drag on and my nights miserable.
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
So I have inherited months of emptiness; nights of toil have been measured out for me.
So am I allotted months of futility and suffering, And [long] nights of trouble and misery are appointed to me.
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
So I have been assigned months of futility, and troubled nights have been counted off for me.
So I am allotted worthless months, And nights of trouble are apportioned to me.
But I ·am given [L inherit] months that are ·empty [vain; futile], and nights of ·misery [or toil] have been ·given [L allotted] to me.
so I have inherited months of futility, and nights of distress have been appointed to me.
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
I’ve been given several months that were useless to me. My nights have been filled with suffering.
So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
So I am assigned months of meaninglessness; troubled nights are my lot.
so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
So am I made to possess months of shav (vanity, futility), and lailot amal (nights of weariness) are appointed to me.
Likewise, I have been given months that are of no use, and I have inherited nights filled with misery.
so I have been assigned months of futility, and nights of trouble have been appointed to me.
Month after frustrating month has gone by. I have suffered night after night.
But I am given months that are empty. Nights of misery have been given to me.
So I had to inherit months of worthlessness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.
so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.
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