Job 7:1

The life of a man on the earth is a battle, and his days are like the days of a hired hand.

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In The King James Version

Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

In Context

2Just as a servant desires the shade, and just as the hired hand looks forward to the end of his work,

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Cross References

Leviticus 25:50considering only the years from the time of his selling until the year of the Jubilee, and calculating the money for which he was sold, according to the number of years and the accounting of a hired hand.

Job 5:7Man is born to labor, and the bird to fly.

Job 14:6Withdraw a little from him, so that he may rest, until his awaited day arrives, like that of the hired hand.

Psalms 39:4And he sent a new canticle into my mouth, a song to our God. Many will see, and they will fear; and they will hope in the Lord.

Isaiah 16:14And now the Lord has spoken, saying: In three years, like the years of a hired hand, the glory of Moab concerning the entire multitude of the people will be taken away, and what is left behind will be small and weak and not so numerous.

Isaiah 38:5“Go and say to Hezekiah: Thus says the Lord, the God of David, your father: I have heard your prayer, and I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your days.

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 →

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