"Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
Cross References
Job 5:7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
Job 7:2Like a slave he longs for shade; like a hireling he waits for his wages.
Job 10:17You produce new witnesses against me and multiply Your anger toward me. Hardships assault me in wave after wave.
Job 14:1"Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
Job 14:6look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.
Job 14:14When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait, until my renewal comes.
Isaiah 16:14And now the LORD says, "In three years, as a hired worker counts the years, Moab's splendor will become an object of contempt, with all her many people. And those who are left will be few and feeble."
Treasury of Scripture
Is there not an appointed time to man on earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
Is there.
Job 14:5,13,14
Seeing his days are determined, the number of his months are with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; …
Psalm 39:4
LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it is; that I may know how frail I am.
Isaiah 38:5
Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
an appointed time.
Ecclesiastes 8:8
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
like the days.
Job 14:6
Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
Leviticus 25:50
And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
Deuteronomy 15:18
It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant to thee, in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
