Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
New American Standard Bible
And are not his days like the days of
King James Version
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
Holman Bible
Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
International Standard Version
"Men have harsh servitude on earth, do they not? His days are like those of a hired laborer, are they not?
American Standard Version
Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
Amplified
And are not his days like the days of a hired man?
Bible in Basic English
Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?
Darby Translation
Hath not man a life of labour upon earth? and are not his days like the days of a hireling?
Julia Smith Translation
Is there not warfare to man upon the earth, and his days as the days of a hireling?
King James 2000
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling?
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Does not {a human being have hard service} on earth? And [are not] his days like the days of a laborer?
Modern King James verseion
Is there not a warfare to man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hireling?
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Is not the life of man upon earth a very battle? Are not his days like the days of a hired servant?
NET Bible
"Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?
New Heart English Bible
"Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?
The Emphasized Bible
Is there not a warfare to a mortal, upon earth? And, as the days of a hireling, are not his days?
Webster
Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of a hireling?
World English Bible
"Isn't a man forced to labor on earth? Aren't his days like the days of a hired hand?
Youngs Literal Translation
Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?
Themes
Employee » Character of unrighteous
Life » Sacredness of, an inference from what is taught in the law concerning murder » Weary of » Job
natural Life » Described as » Limited
Man » Days of, as the days of a hireling
Man » Has an appointed time on the earth
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Job 7:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz
1 Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling? 2 As a servant who earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling who looks for his wages,
Names
Cross References
Job 14:5-6
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.
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.
Job 5:7
but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Job 14:13-14
O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou would appoint for me a set time, and remember me!
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.
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.
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.
Isaiah 40:2
Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry to her, that her warfare has been completed, that her iniquity is pardoned, that she has received of LORD's hand double for all her sins.
Matthew 20:1-15
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.
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.