So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
The verse stands within the extended colloquies of Job 3-31 between Job and his three friends concerning the cause and object of human suffering and affliction. More particularly it belongs to Job's answer to Eliphaz's speech urging him not to despise God's chastening. It gives voice to the long, weary stretch of Job's suffering in months of emptiness and appointed wearisome nights.
In that place Job justifies his complaints. He speaks as one who knows his own integrity yet cannot understand God's dealings with him, though he does not charge God foolishly. His affliction is part of a trial under God's providence, not proof of the sin his friends wrongly accuse him of.
His adversity does not mean he is under God's displeasure nor that he needs to be discouraged, for evil is ultimately punished and good is ultimately rewarded. God saw the end from the beginning and was working through Job's affliction to glorify Himself forever after, to give comfort and hope to thousands of suffering ones, and to prove a blessing to Job himself.
The verse stands within the extended colloquies of Job 3-31 between Job and his three friends concerning the cause and object of human suffering and affliction. More particularly it belongs to Job's answer to Eliphaz's speech urging him not to despise God's chastening. It gives voice to the long, weary stretch of Job's suffering in months of emptiness and appointed wearisome nights.
In that place Job justifies his complaints. He speaks as one who knows his own integrity yet cannot understand God's dealings with him, though he does not charge God foolishly. His affliction is part of a trial under God's providence, not proof of the sin his friends wrongly accuse him of.
His adversity does not mean he is under God's displeasure nor that he needs to be discouraged, for evil is ultimately punished and good is ultimately rewarded. God saw the end from the beginning and was working through Job's affliction to glorify Himself forever after, to give comfort and hope to thousands of suffering ones, and to prove a blessing to Job himself.