'Hired' in the Bible

In that day the Lord will shave with a razor, hired from regions beyond the Euphrates (that is, with the king of Assyria), the head and the hair of the legs; and it will also remove the beard.

But now the Lord speaks, saying, “Within three years, as a hired man would count them, the glory of Moab will be degraded along with all his great population, and his remnant will be very small and impotent.”

And the pillars of Egypt will be crushed;All the hired laborers will be grieved in soul.

For thus the Lord said to me, “In a year, as a hired man would count it, all the splendor of Kedar will terminate;