Job Continues: Life Seems Futile
Job 7:1
In 11 translations
- BSB
- “Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
- KJV
- Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? are not his days also like the days of an hireling?an appointed…: or, a warfare
- WEB
- “Isn’t a man forced to labor on earth? Aren’t his days like the days of a hired hand?
- ASV
- Is there not a warfare to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
- LSV
- “Is there not warfare to man on earth? And his days as the days of a hired worker?
- YLT
- Is there not a warfare to man on earth? And as the days of an hireling his days?
- DBY
- Hath not man a life of labour upon earth? and are not his days like the days of a hireling?
- DRC
- The life of man upon earth is a warfare, and his days are like the days of a hireling.
- GNV
- Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? and are not his dayes as the dayes of an hyreling?
- JPS
- Is there not a time of service to man upon earth? And are not his days like the days of a hireling?
- LXXE
- Is not the life of man upon earth a state of trial? and his existence as that of a hireling by the day?
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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (2)
- Leningrad Codex reads עֲלֵ־; read aloud (Qere) reads עֲלֵי (“on”).
- Written (Ketiv): עַל. Read aloud (Qere): עֲלֵי (“on”) — the form shown in the word-by-word reader.
Edition differences: STEP Bible, based on work at Tyndale House Cambridge (CC BY 4.0). Names and codes expanded; consecutive words grouped. Comparisons follow the editions used by the source; see version details.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- הֲלֹא־צָבָ֣א לֶאֱנ֣וֹשׁ על־אָ֑רֶץ וְכִימֵ֖י שָׂכִ֣יר יָמָֽיו׃Read aloud as (qere): עֲלֵי
- LXX-Br
- Πότερον οὐχὶ πειρατήριόν ἐστιν ὁ βίος ἀνθρώπου ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς; καὶ ὥσπερ μισθίου αὐθημερινοῦ ἡ ζωὴ αὐτοῦ;
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Cross-references most cited first
- Job 14:5–6Since his days are determined and the number of his months is with You, and since You have set limits that he cannot exceed, look away from him and let him rest, so he can enjoy his day as a hired hand.
- Psalms 39:4“Show me, O LORD, my end and the measure of my days. Let me know how fleeting my life is.
- Job 5:7Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
- Job 14:13–14If only You would hide me in Sheol and conceal me until Your anger has passed! If only You would appoint a time for me and then remember me! When a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will…
- Leviticus 25:50He and his purchaser will then count the time from the year he sold himself up to the Year of Jubilee. The price of his sale will be determined by the number of years, based on the daily wages of a hired hand.
- John 11:9–10Jesus answered, “Are there not twelve hours of daylight? If anyone walks in the daytime, he will not stumble, because he sees by the light of this world. But if anyone walks at night, he will stumble, because he has no…
- Ecclesiastes 8:8As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
- Deuteronomy 15:18Do not regard it as a hardship to set your servant free, because his six years of service were worth twice the wages of a hired hand. And the LORD your God will bless you in all you do.
- Isaiah 40:2“Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her forced labor has been completed; her iniquity has been pardoned. For she has received from the hand of the LORD double for all her sins.”
- Matthew 20:1–15“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. About the third hour he…
- Isaiah 21:16For this is what the Lord says to me: “Within one year, as a hired worker would count it, all the glory of Kedar will be gone.
- Isaiah 38:5“Go and tell Hezekiah that this is what the LORD, the God of your father David, says: ‘I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.
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