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Job 7:1

“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?

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ASV

Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

KJV

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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Original language & word study

8 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
הֲלֹא־ha.lo'-¿ notH3808 →
צָבָ֣אtza.Va'[does] serviceH6635 →
לֶאֱנ֣וֹשׁle.'e.No.osh[belong] to humankindH582 →
עֲלֵיal-onH5921 →
אָ֑רֶץ'A.retzearthH776 →
וְכִימֵ֖יve.khi.Meiand like [the] days ofH3117 →
שָׂכִ֣ירsa.Khira hired laborerH7916 →
יָמָֽיו׃ya.Mav[are] days? hisH3117 →

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Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.Job 14:5–6Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,Psalms 39:4“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.Job 14:5Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed,Job 5:7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.Ecclesiastes 3:2a time to be born and a time to die, a time to plant and a time to uproot,Job 14:13–14If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me!John 11:9–10Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world.Ecclesiastes 8:8As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.Deuteronomy 15:18Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.Leviticus 25:50He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.Matthew 20:1–15“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.Isaiah 40:2“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”Deuteronomy 12:1These are the statutes and ordinances you must be careful to follow all the days you live in the land that the LORD, the God of your fathers, has given you to possess.Isaiah 21:16For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.Isaiah 38:5“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.Genesis 47:29When the time drew near for Israel to die, he called his son Joseph and said to him, “If I have found favor in your eyes, put your hand under my thigh and promise to show me kindness and faithfulness. Do not bury me in Egypt,

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Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
Job Hears of His Misfortunes — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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