'Hired' in the Bible
They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right, that shall ye receive.
When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his manager, 'Call the workers and give the pay starting with the last hired until the first.'
And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.
When those hired first came, they thought that they would receive more; but each of them also received a denarius.
Take what belongs to you and go, but I choose to give to this last man [hired] the same as I give to you.
And straightway he called them: and they left their father Zebedee in the ship with the hired servants, and went after him.
And he went [and] hired himself out to one of the citizens of that country, and he sent him into his fields to tend pigs.
And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father's have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
The hired man, since he is not the shepherd and doesn’t own the sheep, leaves them and runs away when he sees a wolf coming. The wolf then snatches and scatters them.
This happens because he is a hired man and doesn’t care about the sheep.
And Paul dwelt two whole years in his own hired house, and received all that came in unto him,