Job 7:1

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“Do not human beings have a hard service on earth, and are not their days like the days of a laborer?

Cross References

Job 10:17

You renew your witnesses against me and increase your vexation toward me; you bring fresh troops against me.

Job 14:1

“A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,

Job 5:7

but humans are born to trouble just as sparks fly upward.

Job 7:2

Like a slave who longs for the shadow, and like laborers who look for their wages,

Psalm 39:4

“Lord, let me know my end and what is the measure of my days; let me know how fleeting my life is.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one has power over the wind to restrain the wind or power over the day of death; there is no discharge from the battle, nor does wickedness deliver those who practice it.

Isaiah 16:14

But now the Lord says, “In three years, like the years of a hired worker, the glory of Moab will be brought into contempt, in spite of all its great multitude, and those who survive will be very few and feeble.”

Isaiah 21:16

For thus the Lord said to me: “Within a year, according to the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end,

Isaiah 38:5

“Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus says the Lord, the God of your ancestor David: I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears; I will add fifteen years to your life.

Isaiah 40:2

Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and cry to her that she has served her term, that her penalty is paid, that she has received from the Lord’s hand double for all her sins.

Leviticus 25:50

They shall compute with the purchaser the total from the year when they sold themselves to the alien until the Jubilee year; the price of the sale shall be applied to the number of years: the time they were with the owner shall be rated as the time of a hired laborer.

Deuteronomy 15:18

“Do not consider it a hardship when you send them out from you free persons, because for six years they have given you services worth the wages of hired laborers, and the Lord your God will bless you in all that you do.