Job 7:1
Does not man have hard labor on earth? 1 Are not his days like the days of a hired man? 1
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2Like a slave earnestly desires the shadows of evening, 1 like a hired man looks for his wages— 1
Cross References
Leviticus 25:50He must bargain with the man who bought him; they must count the years from the year he sold himself to his purchaser until the year of Jubilee. The price of his redemption must be figured in keeping with the rate paid to a hired servant, for the number of years he might continue to work for the one who bought him.
Job 5:7Instead, mankind is born for trouble, 1 just as sparks fly upward. 1
Job 14:6Look away from him that he may rest, 1 so that he may enjoy his day like a hired man if he can do so. 1
Psalms 39:4“Yahweh, make me know when will be the end of my life 1 and the extent of my days. 1 Show me how transient I am. 1
Isaiah 16:14Again Yahweh speaks, “Within three years, the glory of Moab will disappear; in spite of his many people, the remnant will be very few and insignificant.”
Isaiah 38:5“Go and say to Hezekiah, the leader of my people, 'This is what Yahweh, the God of David your ancestor, says: I have heard your prayer, and I have seen your tears. See, I am about to 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 →