Job 7:1

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““Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?”

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BSBPD

““Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Job 7:1 — 14 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Leviticus 25:50He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.
  2. Deuteronomy 15:18Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.
  3. Job 5:7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
  4. Job 14:5Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,
  5. Job 14:6look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.
  6. Job 14:13If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!
  7. Psalms 39:4“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
  8. Ecclesiastes 8:8As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
  9. Isaiah 16:14And now the LORD says, “In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab’s splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble.”
  10. Isaiah 21:16For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.
  11. Isaiah 38:5“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
  12. Isaiah 40:2“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”
  13. Matthew 20:1“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
  14. John 11:9Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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