Job 7:1
Is there not a war-service for man on the earth? Are not his days as the days of a hireling?
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2As a servant panteth for the shade, And as a hireling looketh for his wages,
Cross References
Job 5:7Behold, man is born to trouble, As the sparks fly upward.
Job 14:6O turn thine eyes from him, and let him rest, That he may enjoy, as a hireling, his day!
Psalms 39:4LORD, make me to know mine end, And the number of my days, That I may know how frail I am!
Isaiah 16:14But now saith Jehovah: Within three years, like the years of a hireling, The glory of Moab shall be put to shame, With all his great multitude; And the remnant shall be very small, and without strength.
Isaiah 38:5Go in and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith Jehovah, the God of David thy father: I have heard thy prayer; I have seen thy tears. Behold, I will add to thy life 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 →