Job 7:1
Hath not man a life of labour upon earth? and are not his days like the days of a hireling?
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2As a bondman earnestly desireth the shadow, and a hireling expecteth his wages,
Cross References
Leviticus 25:50And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubilee; and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of the years, according to the days of a hired servant shall he be with him.
Job 5:7For man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upwards.
Job 14:6Look away from him; and let him rest, till he accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
Psalms 39:4Make me to know, Jehovah, mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is: I shall know how frail I am.
Isaiah 16:14And now Jehovah speaketh saying, Within three years, as the years of a hired servant, and the glory of Moab shall be brought to nothing, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be small, few, of no account.
Isaiah 38:5Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, 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 →