Job 7:1
“Is there not warfare to man on earth? And his days as the days of a hired worker?
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
2As a servant desires the shadow, || And as a hired worker expects his wage,
Cross References
Leviticus 25:50And he has reckoned with his buyer from the year of his being sold to him until the Year of Jubilee, and the money of his sale has been by the number of years; it is with him as the days of a hired worker.
Job 5:7For man is born to misery, || And the sparks go high to fly.
Job 14:6Look away from off him that he may cease, || Until he enjoy as a hired worker his day.
Psalms 39:4“Cause me to know, O YHWH, my end, || And the measure of my days—what it [is],” || I know how frail I [am].
Isaiah 16:14And now YHWH has spoken, saying, “In three years, as years of a hired worker, || The glory of Moab is lightly esteemed, || With all the great multitude, || And the remnant [is] little, small, not mighty!”
Isaiah 38:5“Go, and you have said to Hezekiah, Thus said YHWH, God of your father David: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tear, behold, I am adding fifteen years to your days,
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 →