Job 7:1

New American Bible - revised edition

Is not life on earth a drudgery, its days like those of a hireling?

Cross References

Job 10:17

You renew your attack upon me and multiply your harassment of me; in waves your troops come against me.

Job 14:1

Man born of woman is short-lived and full of trouble,

Job 5:7

Human beings beget mischief as sparks fly upward.

Job 7:2

Like a slave who longs for the shade, a hireling who waits for wages,

Psalm 39:4

my heart smolders within me. In my sighing a fire blazes up, and I break into speech:

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one is master of the breath of life so as to retain it, and none has mastery of the day of death. There is no exemption in wartime, nor does wickedness deliver those who practice it.

Isaiah 16:14

But now the Lord speaks: In three years, like the years of a hired laborer, the glory of Moab shall be empty despite all its great multitude; and the remnant shall be very small and weak.

Isaiah 21:16

For thus the Lord has said to me: In another year, like the years of a hired laborer, all the glory of Kedar shall come to an end.

Isaiah 38:5

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

Isaiah 40:2

Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her service has ended, that her guilt is expiated, That she has received from the hand of the Lord double for all her sins.

Leviticus 25:50

With the purchaser they shall compute the years from the sale to the jubilee, distributing the sale price over these years as though they had been hired as laborers.

Deuteronomy 15:18

Do not be reluctant when you let them go free, since the service they have given you for six years was worth twice a hired laborer’s salary; and the Lord, your God, will bless you in everything you do. Firstlings.