Job 7:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as an hireling that looketh 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

And Hamor communed with them, saying, The soul of my son Shechem longeth for your daughter: I pray you give her unto him to wife.

Job 7:1

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

Job 7:3

So am I made to possess months of vanity, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

Psalm 119:131

I opened wide my mouth, and panted; For I longed for thy commandments.

Psalm 143:6

I spread forth my hands unto thee: My soul thirsteth after thee, as a weary land. Selah

Jeremiah 6:4

Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

Leviticus 19:13

Thou shalt not oppress thy neighbour, nor rob him: the wages of a hired servant shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.

Jonah 4:6

And the LORD God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his evil case. So Jonah was exceeding glad because of the gourd.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you to judgement; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers; and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger from his right, and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.

Deuteronomy 24:15

in his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.

James 5:4

Behold, the hire of the labourers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.