Job 7:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:

Cross References

Genesis 34:8

But Hamor said to them, Shechem, my son, is full of desire for your daughter: will you then give her to him for a wife?

Job 7:1

Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

Job 7:3

So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.

Psalm 119:131

My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.

Psalm 143:6

My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. Selah.

Jeremiah 6:4

Make war ready against her; up! let us go up when the sun is high. Sorrow is ours! for the day is turned and the shades of evening are stretched out.

Leviticus 19:13

Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.

Jonah 4:6

And the Lord God made a vine come up over Jonah to give him shade over his head. And Jonah was very glad because of the vine.

Malachi 3:5

And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.

Deuteronomy 24:15

Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.

James 5:4

See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.