Job 7:1
Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? and are not his dayes as the dayes of an hyreling?
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
2As a seruant longeth for the shadowe, and as an hyreling looketh for the ende of his worke,
Cross References
Leviticus 25:50Then he shall recken with his byer from the yeere that he was solde to him, vnto the yere of Iubile: and the money of his sale shalbe according to the number of yeeres: according to the time of an hyred seruant shall he be with him.
Job 5:7But man is borne vnto trauaile, as the sparkes flie vpwarde.
Job 14:6Turne from him that he may cease vntill his desired day, as an hyreling.
Psalms 39:4Lord, let me know mine ende, and the measure of my dayes, what it is: let mee knowe howe long I haue to liue.
Isaiah 16:14And nowe the Lord hath spoken, saying, In three yeres, as the yeeres of a hireling, and the glorie of Moab shall be contemned in all the great multitude, and the remnant shalbe very small and feeble.
Isaiah 38:5Goe, and say vnto Hezekiah, Thus saith the Lord God of Dauid thy father, I haue heard thy prayer, and seene thy teares: behold, I will adde vnto thy dayes fifteene yeeres.
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 →