You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
Job 7:1 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) *Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of an hireling? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition IS THERE not an [appointed] warfare and hard labor to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling? American Standard Version (1901) Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling? Common English Bible Isn’t slavery everyone’s condition on earth, our days like those of a hired worker? Catholic Public Domain Version The life of a man on the earth is a battle, and his days are like the days of a hired hand. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling. |
You renew your witnesses against me, and increase your indignation on me. Changes and warfare are with me.
As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, as a hireling who looks for his wages,
*LORD, show me my end, what is the measure of my days. Let me know how frail I am.
There is no man who has power over the spirit to contain the spirit; neither does he have power over the day of death. There is no discharge in war; neither shall wickedness deliver those who practice it.
But now the LORD has spoken, saying, *Within three years, as a worker bound by contract would count them, the glory of Mo'av shall be brought into contempt, with all his great multitude; and the remnant will be very small and feeble.*
For the Lord said to me, *Within a year, as a worker bound by contract would count it, all the glory of Kedar will fail,
*Go, and tell Chizkiyahu, 'Thus says the LORD, the God of David your father, *I have heard your prayer. I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
*Speak comfortably to Yerushalayim; and call out to her that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of the LORD's hand double for all her sins.*
He shall reckon with him who bought him from the year that he sold himself to him to the Year of Jubilee: and the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years; according to the time of a hired servant shall he be with him.
It shall not seem hard to you, when you let him go free from you; for to the double of the hire of a hireling has he served you six years: and the LORD your God will bless you in all that you do.