Verse 1

Isn't human life on earth like hard labor and their days like those of a hired worker?

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  • Job 14:5-6 : 5 A person’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of their months and set limits they cannot exceed. 6 So look away from them and let them rest, till they have enjoyed their time like a hired worker.
  • Ps 39:4 : 4 My heart grew hot within me; as I meditated, the fire burned. Then I spoke with my tongue:
  • Job 14:13-14 : 13 If only you would hide me in the grave and conceal me till your anger has passed! If you would set me a time and then remember me! 14 If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.
  • Lev 25:50 : 50 They and their buyer are to calculate the time from the year they were sold to the Year of Jubilee. The price of their release shall be based on the number of years, like the wages of a hired worker.
  • Deut 15:18 : 18 Do not consider it hard to set them free, because their service to you for six years was worth twice as much as that of a hired worker, and the Lord your God will bless you in everything you do.
  • Job 5:7 : 7 But people are born to trouble, just as sparks fly upward.
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 No one has power over the wind to restrain it, and no one has power over the day of death. No one is discharged in the time of war, and wickedness will not save those who practice it.
  • Isa 21:16 : 16 For this is what the Lord said to me: 'In one year, as if it were the years of a hired worker, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end.'
  • Isa 38:5 : 5 "Go and tell Hezekiah: This is what the LORD, the God of your ancestor David, says: 'I have heard your prayer, I have seen your tears. Behold, I will add fifteen years to your life.'"
  • Isa 40:2 : 2 Speak tenderly to Jerusalem and proclaim to her that her hard service is completed, that her sin has been paid for, for she has received from the Lord's hand double for all her sins.
  • Matt 20:1-9 : 1 For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 He agreed to pay them a denarius for the day and sent them into his vineyard. 3 About the third hour, he went out and saw others standing in the marketplace doing nothing. 4 He told them, 'You also go into the vineyard, and I will pay you whatever is right.' 5 So they went. He went out again around the sixth and ninth hours and did the same thing. 6 About the eleventh hour, he went out and found others standing idle. He asked them, 'Why have you been standing here all day doing nothing?' 7 They answered, 'Because no one has hired us.' He said to them, 'You also go into the vineyard.' 8 When evening came, the owner of the vineyard said to his foreman, 'Call the workers and pay them their wages, beginning with the last and going to the first.' 9 The workers who were hired about the eleventh hour came and each received a denarius. 10 So when the first ones came, they expected to receive more. But each of them also received a denarius. 11 When they received it, they began to grumble against the landowner. 12 'These who were hired last worked only one hour,' they said, 'and you have made them equal to us, who have borne the burden of the work and the heat of the day.' 13 But he answered one of them, 'Friend, I am not being unfair to you. Didn't you agree to work for a denarius?' 14 'Take your pay and go. I want to give the one who was hired last the same as I gave you.' 15 'Don't I have the right to do what I want with my own money? Or are you envious because I am generous?'
  • John 11:9-9 : 9 Jesus answered, 'Aren't there twelve hours in the day? If anyone walks during the day, he won't stumble, because he sees by this world's light.' 10 'But if anyone walks at night, he stumbles, because there is no light in him.'