Job 7:1
Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling who looks for his wages,
Cross References
Leviticus 25:50And he shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the year of jubilee. And the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years. He shall be with him according to the time of a hire
Job 5:7but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 14:6look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
Psalms 39:4LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is. Let me know how frail I am.
Isaiah 16:14But now LORD has spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude. And the remnant shall be very small and of no account.
Isaiah 38:5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus says LORD, the God of David thy father. I have heard thy prayer. I have seen thy tears. Behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.
Matthew Henry on Job 7:1
Job, in this chapter, goes on to express the bitter sense he had of his calamities and to justify himself in his desire of death. I. He complains to himself and his friends of his troubles, and the constant agitation he was in, ver. 1-6 . II. He turns to God, and expostulates with him ( ver. 7 , to the end), in which, 1. He pleads the final period which death puts to our present state, ver. 7-10 . 2. He passionately complains of the miserable condition he was now in, ver. 11-16 . 3. He wonders that God will thus… Read the whole commentary →