Jamieson, Fausset & Brown

--Months of comfortless misfortune. I am made to possess--literally, "to be heir to." Irony. "To be heir to," is usually a matter of joy; but here it is the entail of an involuntary and dismal inheritance. Months--for days, to express its long duration. Appointed--literally, "they have numbered to me"; marking well the unavoidable doom assigned to him.