Job 7:3

made to possess lit. made to inherit. They are laid on him by the will of another. Job narrows his view here from the lot of men in general to his own. He is one of an afflicted race, but the universal misery does not alleviate his own, it rather increases it.

That loss is common would not make

My own less bitter, rather more;

Too common! Never morning wore

To evening, but some heart did break.

A sorrowing Arab poet gives expression to a different feeling:

Did not a common sorrow console me I would not live an hour among men,

But whenever I will, they in like condition with myself respond to me.

Hamasa, p. 389, 396.

The point of comparison between Job's life and the day of the hireling lies in their common toil and their common longing for the end of it. Job describes his day as "months of vanity" and "nights of trouble," indicating that his disease had already endured a long time. He refers to "nights" perhaps because his pains were severest then (cf. Job 7:4; Job 7:14, ch. Job 30:17); although in the East the method also of counting by nights instead of days was common.