Job 7:1

New International Version

“Do not mortals have hard service on earth? Are not their days like those of hired laborers?

Cross References

Job 10:17

You bring new witnesses against me and increase your anger toward me; your forces come against me wave upon wave.

Job 14:1

“Mortals, born of woman, are of few days and full of trouble.

Job 5:7

Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.

Job 7:2

Like a slave longing for the evening shadows, or a hired laborer waiting to be paid,

Psalm 39:4

“Show me, Lord, my life’s end and the number of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

As no one has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has power over the time of their death. As no one is discharged in time of war, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.

Isaiah 16:14

But now the Lord says: “Within three years, as a servant bound by contract would count them, Moab’s splendor and all her many people will be despised, and her survivors will be very few and feeble.”

Isaiah 21:16

This is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a servant bound by contract would count it, all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end.

Isaiah 38:5

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

Isaiah 40:2

Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.

Leviticus 25:50

They and their buyer are to count the time from the year they sold themselves up to the Year of Jubilee. The price for their release is to be based on the rate paid to a hired worker for that number of years.

Deuteronomy 15:18

Do not consider it a hardship to set your servant free, because their service to you these six years has been worth twice as much as that of a hired hand. And the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.