Job 7:1
Is this not the struggle of all humanity? A person's life is long and hard like that of a hired hand.
Job 14:5-6
Man's days are determined. You have decreed the number of his months and have set limits he cannot exceed.
Psalm 39:4
Jehovah, please make me to know my end. What is the extent of my days? Let me know how temporary (frail) (destitute) I am.
Leviticus 25:50
Then he and his buyer must take into account the number of years from the year he was bought until the year of jubilee. His sale price will be adjusted based on the number of years he was with his buyer. This is like the wages of a hired worker.
Deuteronomy 15:18
It should not seem hard to you when you set him free. After all he has given you six years with double the service of a hired man. Jehovah your God will bless you in whatever you do.
Job 5:7
A person is born for trouble as surely as sparks fly up from a fire.
Job 14:13-14
If only you would hide me in the grave (Sheol) and conceal me till your anger has passed! If only you would set a time for me and then remember me!
Ecclesiastes 8:8
No man has the power to restrain the wind, to retain the breath of life. Neither does he have power in the day of death. There is no discharge from that war. Neither will wickedness deliver those who are given to it.
Isaiah 21:16
This is what Jehovah says to me: Within one year, as a servant bound by contract would count it, all the pomp of Kedar will come to an end.
Isaiah 38:5
to go back to Hezekiah and say to him: I Jehovah, the God of your ancestor David, have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will add fifteen more years to your life.
Isaiah 40:2
Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed. Her sin has been paid for and she has received double for all her sins from Jehovah's hand.
Matthew 20:1-15
The kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
John 11:9-10
Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walks in the day he does not stumble because he sees the light of this world.