KJV King James Version
[Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an hireling?
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Job 7:1
[Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an hireling?
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
WEB World English Bible
“Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
ASV American Standard Version
Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?
Surrounding context — Job 7
1 [Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an hireling?
2 As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for [the reward of] his work:
3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.
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Job 14:5-6Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his months [are] with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;Psalm 39:4LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].Job 5:7Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.Job 14:13-14O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!Isaiah 40:2Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD’S hand double for all her sins.Leviticus 25:50And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.Deuteronomy 15:18It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant [to thee], in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.Ecclesiastes 8:8[There is] no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither [hath he] power in the day of death: and [there is] no discharge in [that] war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.John 11:9-10Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.Matthew 20:1-15For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man [that is] an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.Isaiah 38:5Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.Isaiah 21:16For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
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