Job 7:1
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
King James Version
In Context
2As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:
Cross References
Leviticus 25:50And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
Job 5:7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 14:6Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
Psalms 39:4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Isaiah 16:14But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be contemned, with all that great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and feeble.
Isaiah 38:5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith 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 →