Job 7:1 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹ “Has not man a hard service upon earth, and are not his days like the days of a hireling?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of an hireling?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ IS THERE not an [appointed] warfare and hard labor to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

Common English Bible

¹ Isn’t slavery everyone’s condition on earth, our days like those of a hired worker?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ The life of a man on the earth is a battle, and his days are like the days of a hired hand.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling.

Job 7:1 Cross References

Job 10:17

thou dost renew thy witnesses against me, and increase thy vexation toward me; thou dost bring fresh hosts against me.

Job 14:1

“Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.

Job 5:7

but man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.

Job 7:2

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

Psalm 39:4

“Lord, let me know my end, and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is!

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No man has power to retain the spirit, or authority over the day of death; there is no discharge from war, nor will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.

Isaiah 16:14

But now the Lord says, “In three years, like the years of a hireling, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all his great multitude, and those who survive will be very few and feeble.”

Isaiah 21:16

For thus the Lord said to me, “Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end;

Isaiah 38:5

“Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of David your father: I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.

Isaiah 40:2

Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is ended, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins.

Leviticus 25:50

He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year when he sold himself to him until the year of jubilee, and the price of his release shall be according to the number of years; the time he was with his owner shall be rated as the time of a hired servant.

Deuteronomy 15:18

It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for at half the cost of a hired servant he has served you six years. So the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.