Job 7:1 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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.

Job 7:1 Cross References

Psalm 39:4

LORD, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.

Job 5:7

But man is born unto trouble, As the sparks fly upward.

Isaiah 40:2

Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned; that she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.

Isaiah 21:16

For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:

Ecclesiastes 8:8

There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.

Deuteronomy 15:18

It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou lettest him go free from thee; for to the double of the hire of an hireling hath he served thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.

Leviticus 25:50

And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he sold himself to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years; according to the time of an hired servant shall he be with him.

Isaiah 38:5

Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.

Job 7:2

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

Job 10:17

Thou renewest thy witnesses against me, And increasest thine indignation upon me; Changes and warfare are with me.

Job 14:1

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

Isaiah 16:14

But now the LORD hath spoken, saying, Within three years, as the years of an hireling, and the glory of Moab shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and of no account.