Job 7:1
“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
Berean Standard Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.
Cross References
Leviticus 25:50He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.
Job 5:7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
Job 14:6look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.
Psalms 39:4“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
Isaiah 16:14And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”
Isaiah 38:5“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
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 →