Job 7:1
The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2As a servant longeth for the shade, as the hireling looketh for the end of his work;
Cross References
Leviticus 25:50Counting only the years from the time of his selling unto the year of the jubilee: and counting the money that he was sold for, according to the number of the years and the reckoning of a hired servant,
Job 5:7Man is born to labour and the bird to fly.
Job 14:6Depart a little from him, that he may rest, until his wished for day come, as that of the hireling.
Psalms 39:4My heart grew hot within me : and in my meditation a fire shall flame out.
Isaiah 16:14And now the Lord hath spoken, saying: In three years, as the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab shall be taken away for all the multitude of the people, and it shall be left small and feeble, not many.
Isaiah 38:5Go and say to Ezechias: Thus saith the Lord the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer, and 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 →