Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?

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 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?

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? And as the days of an hireling his days? 2 As a servant desireth the shadow, And as a hireling expecteth his wage,

Cross References

Job 14:5-6

If determined are his days, The number of his months are with Thee, His limit Thou hast made, And he passeth not over;

Psalm 39:4

Cause me to know, O Jehovah, mine end, And the measure of my days -- what it is,' I know how frail I am.

Leviticus 25:50

'And he hath reckoned with his buyer from the year of his being sold to him till the year of jubilee, and the money of his sale hath been by the number of years; as the days of an hireling it is with him.

Deuteronomy 15:18

'It is not hard in thine eyes, in thy sending him away free from thee; for the double of the hire of an hireling he hath served thee six years, and Jehovah thy God hath blessed thee in all that thou dost.

Job 5:7

For man to misery is born, And the sparks go high to fly.

Job 14:13-14

O that in Sheol Thou wouldest conceal me, Hide me till the turning of Thine anger, Set for me a limit, and remember me.

Ecclesiastes 8:8

There is no man ruling over the spirit to restrain the spirit, and there is no authority over the day of death, and there is no discharge in battle, and wickedness delivereth not its possessors.

Isaiah 21:16

For thus said the Lord unto me: 'Within a year, as years of a hireling, Consumed hath been all the honour of Kedar.

Isaiah 38:5

Go, and thou hast said to Hezekiah, Thus said Jehovah, God of David thy father, 'I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tear, lo, I am adding to thy days fifteen years,

Isaiah 40:2

Speak to the heart of Jerusalem, and call to her, That her warfare hath been completed, That accepted hath been her punishment, That she hath received from the hand of Jehovah Double for all her sins.

Matthew 20:1-15

'For the reign of the heavens is like to a man, a householder, who went forth with the morning to hire workmen for his vineyard,

John 11:9-10

Jesus answered, 'Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see;

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