Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
Is there not warfare to man upon the earth, and his days as 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?
A Conservative Version
Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
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?
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 warfare to man upon the earth, and his days as the days of a hireling? 2 As the servant will gape for the shadow, and as the hireling will wait for his work:
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Cross References
Job 14:5-6
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.
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.
Job 5:7
For man shall be born to labor as the sons of the flame will lift up to fly.
Job 14:13-14
Who will give thou wilt hide me in hades? wilt thou cover me till the turning away of thine anger? wilt thou set for me a limit, and wilt thou remember me?
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.
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.
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.
Isaiah 40:2
Speak ye to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her that her war was filled up, her iniquity was paid off: that she received from the hand of Jehovah double for all her sins.
Matthew 20:1-15
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.
John 11:9-10
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.