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?

An appointed time

Bible References

Is there

Job 14:5
If his days are determined, the number of his months with thee; thou madest his limit; he shall not pass over.
Psalm 39:4
O Jehovah, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; I shall know how I fail.
Isaiah 38:5
Go and say to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, the God of David thy father, I heard thy prayer; and I saw thy tears: behold, I will add to thy days fifteen years.
John 11:9
Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours of the day.? If any walk in the day, he stumbles not, for he sees the light of this world.

An appointed time

Ecclesiastes 8:8
No man having power in spirit to restrain the spirit: and no power in the day of death: and no sending forth in war; and injustice shall not deliver its possessors.

Like the days

Job 14:6
Look away from him and be shall cease, till he shall delight as an hireling in his day.
Leviticus 25:50
And he reckoned with him buying him, from the year of his being sold to him till the year of the jubilee: and the silver of his selling was according to the number of years, as the days of a hireling, shall it be with him.
Deuteronomy 15:18
It shall not be hard in thine eye in thy sending him away free from thee, because for the year of the wages of the hireling he served thee six years: and Jehovah thy God blessed thee in all which thou shalt do.
Isaiah 21:16
For thus said the Lord to me, Within yet a year; as the years of a hireling, and all the glory of Kedar was finished.
Matthew 20:1
For the kingdom of the heavens is like to a man, master of a house, who went out as soon as morning to hire workmen for his vineyard.