Parallel Verses

Modern King James verseion

Is there not a warfare to man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hireling?

New American Standard Bible

Is not man forced to labor on earth,
And are not his days like the days of a hired man?

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

Isn’t mankind consigned to forced labor on earth?
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

“Is not man forced to labor on earth?
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 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?

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Is there not an appointed time
צבאה צבא 
Tsaba' 
Usage: 483

to man
אנושׁ 
'enowsh 
Usage: 42

ארץ 
'erets 
Usage: 2504

are not his days
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

also like the days
יום 
Yowm 
Usage: 2293

References

Watsons

Context Readings

Job's Second Speech: A Response To Eliphaz

1 Is there not a warfare to man on earth? Are not his days also like the days of a hireling? 2 As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as a hireling looks for his wages,

Cross References

Job 14:5-6

For his days are fixed, the number of his months is with You, and You have set his bounds so that he cannot pass;

Psalm 39:4

O Jehovah, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; I know how frail I am.

Leviticus 25:50

And he shall count with his buyer from the year that he was sold to him, until the year of jubilee. And the price of his sale shall be according to the number of years, according to the time of a hired servant it shall be with him.

Deuteronomy 15:18

It shall not seem hard to you when you send him away from you free, for he has been worth a double hired servant in serving you six years. And Jehovah your God shall bless you in all that you do.

Job 5:7

but man is born to trouble, as the sparks fly upward.

Job 14:13-14

Who will grant that You would hide me in the grave, that You would keep me secret, until Your wrath is past, that You would set me a fixed time and remember me?

Ecclesiastes 8:8

There is no man who has power over the spirit to keep the spirit; nor power in the day of death; and there is no discharge in that war; nor shall wickedness deliver its owners.

Isaiah 21:16

For so has Jehovah 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: So says Jehovah, the God of David your father, I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears; behold, I will add to your days fifteen years.

Isaiah 40:2

Speak lovingly to the heart of Jerusalem, and cry to her that her warfare is done, that her iniquity is pardoned; for she has received of Jehovah's hand double for all her sins.

Matthew 20:1-15

For the kingdom of Heaven is like a man, a housemaster, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard.

John 11:9-10

Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks in the day, he does not stumble because he sees the light of the world.

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