Job 7:1
What does Job 7:1 mean?
A plain-English look at Job 7:1 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
KJV
King James Version · 1611Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Hath not man a life of labour upon earth? and are not his days like the days of a hireling?
Context
v.1This passage
v.2As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as a hireling that looketh for his wages:
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ecclesiastes 8:8
There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power over the day of death; and there is no discharge in war: neither shall wickedness deliver him that is given to it.
- John 11:9
Jesus answered, Are there not twelve hours in the day? If a man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.
- Psalms 39:4
Jehovah, make me to know mine end, And the measure of my days, what it is; Let me know how frail I am.
- Job 14:13
Oh that thou wouldest hide me in Sheol, That thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, That thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me!
- Isaiah 21:16
For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of a hireling, all the glory of Kedar shall fail;
- Matthew 20:1
For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that was a householder, who went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard.
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