Devine Scripture

Job 7:2

Job chapter 7 · verse 2 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as a hireling that looketh for his wages:

KJV

King James Version · 1611

As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for the reward of his work:

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

As a servant that earnestly desireth the shadow, And as a hireling that looketh for his wages:

Context

v.1Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?

v.2This passage

v.3So am I made to possess months of misery, And wearisome nights are appointed to me.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Jeremiah 6:4

    Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day declineth, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.

  • Psalms 119:131

    I opened wide my mouth, and panted; For I longed for thy commandments.

  • Psalms 143:6

    I spread forth my hands unto thee: My soulthirstethafter thee, as a weary land. [Selah

  • James 5:4

    Behold, the hire of the laborers who mowed your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth out: and the cries of them that reaped have entered into the ears of the Lord of Sabaoth.

  • Malachi 3:5

    And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against the false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in his wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the sojourner from his right, and fear not me, saith Jehovah of hosts.

  • Deuteronomy 24:15

    in his day thou shalt give him his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it (for he is poor, and setteth his heart upon it); lest he cry against thee unto Jehovah, and it be sin unto thee.