Job 7:2

Modern English Version

Like a servant, he longs for the shade, and like a hired worker, he looks for his wages,

Cross References

Genesis 34:8

Hamor spoke with them, saying, “The soul of my son Shechem longs for your daughter. I pray that you will give her to him to marry.

Job 7:1

“Is there not a time of hard service for a man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hired worker?

Job 7:3

so I have been assigned months of futility, and nights of trouble have been appointed to me.

Psalm 119:131

I opened my mouth and panted, for I long for Your commandments.

Psalm 143:6

I stretch forth my hands to You; my soul thirsts for You like a thirsty land.    Selah

Jeremiah 6:4

“Prepare war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon.” “Woe to us, for the day declines, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.”

Leviticus 19:13

You shall not defraud your neighbor or rob him. The wages of him who is hired shall not stay with you all night until the morning.

Jonah 4:6

Then the Lord God appointed a plant, and it grew up over Jonah to provide shade over his head, to provide comfort from his grief. And Jonah was very happy about the plant.

Malachi 3:5

Then I will draw near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, against the adulterers, against the perjurers, against those who oppress the hired worker in his wages, the widow and the fatherless, against those who turn aside the stranger, and do not fear Me, says the Lord of Hosts.

Deuteronomy 24:15

You must give him his wages on that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor, and sets his heart on it, lest he cry against you to the Lord, and it be a sin to you.

James 5:4

Behold, the wages that you kept back by fraud from the laborers who harvested your fields are crying, and the cries of those who harvested have entered into the ears of the Lord of Hosts.