Job 7:1
Is there not a limited time of service to a mortal upon the earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired laborer?
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
2As a servant eagerly longeth for the shadow, and as a hired laborer hopeth for his reward:
Cross References
Leviticus 25:50And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he sold himself to him unto the year of the jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years, as the time of a hired laborer shall he have been with him.
Job 5:7But man is born unto trouble, as young birds take up their flight.
Job 14:6Turn thyself from him that he may recover from his pain, and be able to enjoy like a hired laborer his day.
Psalms 39:4(39:5) Let me know, O Lord, my end, and the measure of my days, what it is: I wish to know when I shall cease to be.
Isaiah 16:14But now hath the Lord spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of a hired laborer, shall the glory of Moab be rendered mean with all this [his] great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and inconsiderable.
Isaiah 38:5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus hath said the Lord, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto 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 →