Job 7:2 - Revised Standard Version

Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like a hireling who looks for his wages,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, And as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

As a servant earnestly longs for the shade and the evening shadows, and as a hireling who looks for the reward of his work,

American Standard Version (1901)

As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as a hireling that looketh for his wages:

Common English Bible

Like a slave we pant for a shadow, await our task like a hired worker.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Just as a servant desires the shade, and just as the hired hand looks forward to the end of his work,

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

As a servant longeth for the shade, as the hireling looketh for the end of his work;

Job 7:2 Cross References

Genesis 34:8

But Hamor spoke with them, saying, “The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter; I pray you, give her to him in marriage.

Job 7:1

“Has not man a hard service upon earth, and are not his days like the days of a hireling?

Job 7:3

so I am allotted months of emptiness, and nights of misery are apportioned to me.

Psalm 119:131

With open mouth I pant, because I long for thy commandments.

Psalm 143:6

I stretch out my hands to thee; my soul thirsts for thee like a parched land. Selah

Jeremiah 6:4

“Prepare war against her; up, and let us attack at noon!” “Woe to us, for the day declines, for the shadows of evening lengthen!”

Leviticus 19:13

“You shall not oppress your neighbor or rob him. The wages of a hired servant shall not remain with you all night until the morning.

Jonah 4:6

And the Lord God appointed a plant, and made it come up over Jonah, that it might be a shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort. So Jonah was exceedingly glad because of the plant.

Malachi 3:5

“Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the sojourner, and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Deuteronomy 24:15

you shall give him his hire on the day he earns it, before the sun goes down (for he is poor, and sets his heart upon it); lest he cry against you to the Lord, and it be sin in you.

James 5:4

Behold, the wages of the laborers who mowed your fields, which you kept back by fraud, cry out; and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of hosts.