Job 7:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like laborers who look for their wages,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, And as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² 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)

² As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as a hireling that looketh for his wages:

Common English Bible

² Like a slave we pant for a shadow, await our task like a hired worker.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² 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

² 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 heart of my son Shechem longs for your daughter; please give her to him in marriage.

Job 7:1

“Do not human beings have a hard service on earth, and are not their days like the days of a laborer?

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 your commandments.

Psalm 143:6

I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you 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; the shadows of evening lengthen!”

Leviticus 19:13

“You shall not defraud your neighbor; you shall not steal; and you shall not keep for yourself the wages of a laborer until morning.

Jonah 4:6

The Lord God appointed a bush and made it come up over Jonah, to give shade over his head, to save him from his discomfort, so Jonah was very happy about the bush.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment; I will be swift to bear witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against those who swear falsely, against those who oppress the hired workers in their wages, the widow, and the orphan, against those who thrust aside the alien and do not fear me, says the Lord of hosts.

Deuteronomy 24:15

You shall pay them their wages daily before sunset, because they are poor and their livelihood depends on them; otherwise they might cry to the Lord against you, and you would incur guilt.

James 5:4

Listen! 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.