Job 7:1

New English Translation

“Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?

Cross References

Job 10:17

You bring new witnesses against me, and increase your anger against me; relief troops come against me.

Job 14:1

“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

Job 5:7

but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.

Job 7:2

Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages,

Psalm 39:4

“O Lord, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!

Ecclesiastes 8:8

Just as no one has power over the wind to restrain it, so no one has power over the day of his death. Just as no one can be discharged during the battle, so wickedness cannot rescue the wicked.

Isaiah 16:14

Now the Lord makes this announcement: “Within exactly three years Moab’s splendor will disappear, along with all her many people; there will be just a few, insignificant survivors left.”

Isaiah 21:16

For this is what the sovereign master has told me: “Within exactly one year all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end.

Isaiah 38:5

“Go and tell Hezekiah: ‘This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: “I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life,

Isaiah 40:2

“Speak kindly to Jerusalem, and tell her that her time of warfare is over, that her punishment is completed. For the Lord has made her pay double for all her sins.”

Leviticus 25:50

He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.

Deuteronomy 15:18

You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.