Job 7:1
“Isn't life for human beings like serving a sentence of hard labor? Don't their days pass like those of a hired laborer?
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In Context
2Like some slave longing for a bit of shade, like a hired hand anxiously waiting for pay day,
Cross References
Leviticus 25:50The person concerned and their buyer will work out the time from the year of the sale up to the Jubilee Year. The price will depend on the number of years, calculated using the daily rate for a paid worker.
Job 5:7But human beings are born for trouble just as certainly as sparks from a fire fly upwards.
Job 14:6So leave us alone and give us some peace—so like a laborer we could enjoy a few hours of rest at the end of the day.
Psalms 39:4Lord, remind me. How short is my life? How long do I have? Remind me how quickly my life will pass.
Isaiah 16:14But now the Lord speaks again, and says, In three years, just as a contract worker precisely counts years, Moab's glory will turn into something to be laughed at. Despite there being so many Moabites now, soon there will only be a few feeble people left.
Isaiah 38:5“Go and tell Hezekiah, This is what the Lord, the God of your forefather David, says: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. 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 →