Parallel Verses
NET Bible
"Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?
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?
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?
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 "Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man? 2 Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages,
Names
Cross References
Job 14:5-6
Since man's days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.
Psalm 39:4
"O Lord, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!
Leviticus 25:50
He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.
Deuteronomy 15:18
You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.
Job 5:7
but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.
Job 14:13-14
"O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!
Ecclesiastes 8:8
Just as no one has power over the wind to restrain it, so no one has power over the day of his death. Just as no one can be discharged during the battle, so wickedness cannot rescue the wicked.
Isaiah 21:16
For this is what the sovereign master has told me: "Within exactly one year all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end.
Isaiah 38:5
"Go and tell Hezekiah: 'This is what the Lord God of your ancestor David says: "I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life,
Isaiah 40:2
"Speak kindly to Jerusalem, and tell her that her time of warfare is over, that her punishment is completed. For the Lord has made her pay double for all her sins."
Matthew 20:1-15
"For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard.
John 11:9-10
Jesus replied, "Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.