You renew Your witnesses against me, and increase Your anger toward me, change and warfare are with me.
Job 7:1 - Tree of Life Version “Does not man have hard labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired laborer? 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 anger toward me, change and warfare are with me.
Like a slave longing for the shadow, or a hired man waiting for his pay,
My heart was hot within me, while I was musing, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
No one has authority over the wind to restrain it, nor authority over the day of death. As no one is discharged during a battle, so wickedness cannot rescue its master.
But now Adonai has spoken, saying: “Within three years (as with the years of a hired worker), the glory of Moab will be disgraced; for all his large population, the remnant will be very small and feeble.”
For thus Adonai said to me, “Within a year (as with the years of a hired worker), all the glory of Kedar will cease,
“Go, and say to Hezekiah, thus says Adonai, the God of your father David: ‘I have heard your prayer and I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add 15 years to your life.
Speak kindly to the heart of Jerusalem and proclaim to her that her warfare has ended, that her iniquity has been removed. For she has received from Adonai’s hand double for all her sins.
He is to calculate with the one who bought him, from the year that he sold himself to the Year of Jubilee, and the price of his sale will be in proportion to the number of years. Like the days of a hired worker it will be with him.
It should not seem hard to you when you set him free from you, for he has served you six years—double the value of a hired worker. So Adonai your God will bless you in all that you do.