Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
Is there
An appointed time
Like the days
Bible References
Is there
Job 14:5
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months is with thee, and thou have appointed his bounds that he cannot pass,
Psalm 39:4
LORD, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is. Let me know how frail I am.
Isaiah 38:5
Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus says LORD, the God of David thy father. I have heard thy prayer. I have seen thy tears. Behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.
John 11:9
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.
An appointed time
Ecclesiastes 8:8
There is no man who has power over the spirit to retain the spirit, nor has he power over the day of death. And there is no discharge in war. Neither shall wickedness deliver him who is given to it.
Like the days
Job 14:6
look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hireling, his day.
Leviticus 25:50
And 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. He shall be with him according to the time of a hire
Deuteronomy 15:18
It shall not seem hard to thee when thou let him go free from thee, for he has been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years. And LORD thy God will bless thee in all that thou do.
Isaiah 21:16
For thus LORD has said to me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail.
Matthew 20:1
For the kingdom of the heavens is compared to a man, a house-ruler, who went out in the early morning at the same time to hire workmen for his vineyard.