Job 7:1
Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2As a servant desireth the shadow, And as a hireling expecteth his wage,
Cross References
Leviticus 25:50'And he hath reckoned with his buyer from the year of his being sold to him till the year of jubilee, and the money of his sale hath been by the number of years; as the days of an hireling it is with him.
Job 5:7For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.
Job 14:6Look away from off him that he may cease, Till he enjoy as an hireling his day.
Psalms 39:4'Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days — what it [is],' I know how frail I [am].
Isaiah 16:14And now hath Jehovah spoken, saying, 'In three years, as years of an hireling, Lightly esteemed is the honour of Moab, With all the great multitude, And the remnant [is] little, small, not mighty!'
Isaiah 38:5Go, and thou hast said to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, 'I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tear, lo, I am adding to 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 →