Job 7:1

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Has not man his ordered time of trouble on the earth? and are not his days like the days of a servant working for payment?

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  • Job 14:5-6 : 5 If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go; 6 Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.
  • Ps 39:4 : 4 Lord, give me knowledge of my end, and of the measure of my days, so that I may see how feeble I am.
  • Job 14:13-14 : 13 If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again! 14 If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.
  • Lev 25:50 : 50 And let the years be numbered from the time when he gave himself to his owner till the year of Jubilee, and the price given for him will be in relation to the number of years, on the scale of the payment of a servant.
  • Deut 15:18 : 18 Let it not seem hard to you that you have to send him away free; for he has been working for you for six years, which is twice the regular time for a servant: and the blessing of the Lord your God will be on you in everything you do.
  • Job 5:7 : 7 But trouble is man's fate from birth, as the flames go up from the fire.
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.
  • Isa 21:16 : 16 For so has the Lord said to me, In a year, by the years of a servant working for payment, all the glory of Kedar will come to an end:
  • Isa 38:5 : 5 Go to Hezekiah, and say, The Lord, the God of David, your father, says, Your prayer has come to my ears, and I have seen your weeping: see, I will give you fifteen more years of life.
  • Isa 40:2 : 2 Say kind words to the heart of Jerusalem, crying out to her that her time of trouble is ended, that her punishment is complete; that she has been rewarded by the Lord's hand twice over for all her sins.
  • Matt 20:1-9 : 1 For the kingdom of heaven is like the master of a house, who went out early in the morning to get workers into his vine-garden. 2 And when he had made an agreement with the workmen for a penny a day, he sent them into his vine-garden. 3 And he went out about the third hour, and saw others in the market-place doing nothing; 4 And he said to them, Go into the vine-garden with the others, and whatever is right I will give you. And they went to work. 5 Again he went out about the sixth and the ninth hour, and did the same. 6 And about the eleventh hour he went out and saw others doing nothing; and he says to them, Why are you here all the day doing nothing? 7 They say to him, Because no man has given us work. He says to them, Go in with the rest, into the vine-garden. 8 And when evening came, the lord of the vine-garden said to his manager, Let the workers come, and give them their payment, from the last to the first. 9 And when those men came who had gone to work at the eleventh hour, they were given every man a penny. 10 Then those who came first had the idea that they would get more; and they, like the rest, were given a penny. 11 And when they got it, they made a protest against the master of the house, 12 Saying, These last have done only one hour's work, and you have made them equal to us, who have undergone the hard work of the day and the burning heat. 13 But he in answer said to one of them, Friend, I do you no wrong: did you not make an agreement with me for a penny? 14 Take what is yours, and go away; it is my pleasure to give to this last, even as to you. 15 Have I not the right to do as seems good to me in my house? or is your eye evil, because I am good?
  • John 11:9-9 : 9 Then Jesus said in answer, Are there not twelve hours in the day? A man may go about in the day without falling, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if a man goes about in the night, he may have a fall because the light is not in him.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 7:2-3
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    84%

    2As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:

    3So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.

  • Job 10:4-5
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    77%

    4Have you eyes of flesh, or do you see as man sees?

    5Are your days as the days of man, or your years like his,

  • Job 7:16-18
    3 verses
    75%

    16I have no desire for life, I would not be living for ever! Keep away from me, for my days are as a breath.

    17What is man, that you have made him great, and that your attention is fixed on him,

    18And that your hand is on him every morning, and that you are testing him every minute?

  • Job 14:5-6
    2 verses
    74%

    5If his days are ordered, and you have knowledge of the number of his months, having given him a fixed limit past which he may not go;

    6Let your eyes be turned away from him, and take your hand from him, so that he may have pleasure at the end of his day, like a servant working for payment.

  • Ps 144:3-4
    2 verses
    73%

    3Lord, what is man, that you keep him in mind? or the son of man that you take him into account?

    4Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.

  • Job 14:13-14
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    73%

    13If only you would keep me safe in the underworld, putting me in a secret place till your wrath is past, giving me a fixed time when I might come to your memory again!

    14If death takes a man, will he come to life again? All the days of my trouble I would be waiting, till the time came for me to be free.

  • Eccl 7:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14In the day of wealth have joy, but in the day of evil take thought: God has put the one against the other, so that man may not be certain what will be after him.

    15These two have I seen in my life which is to no purpose: a good man coming to his end in his righteousness, and an evil man whose days are long in his evil-doing.

  • Job 7:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.

    7O, keep in mind that my life is wind: my eye will never again see good.

  • Eccl 6:6-7
    2 verses
    73%

    6And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?

    7All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.

  • Ps 89:47
    72%

    47See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

  • Eccl 3:9
    72%

    9What profit has the worker in the work which he does?

  • Job 14:1-3
    3 verses
    72%

    1As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.

    2He comes out like a flower, and is cut down: he goes in flight like a shade, and is never seen again.

    3Is it on such a one as this that your eyes are fixed, with the purpose of judging him?

  • Eccl 8:6-7
    2 verses
    72%

    6For every purpose there is a time and a decision, because the sorrow of man is great in him.

    7No one is certain what is to be, and who is able to say to him when it will be?

  • Eccl 1:3
    72%

    3What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    71%

    11There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?

    12Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

  • Job 24:1
    71%

    1Why are times not stored up by the Ruler of all, and why do those who have knowledge of him not see his days?

  • Job 20:4
    70%

    4Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,

  • Deut 24:15
    70%

    15Give him his payment day by day, not keeping it back over night; for he is poor and his living is dependent on it; and if his cry against you comes to the ears of the Lord, it will be judged as sin in you.

  • Eccl 4:8
    70%

    8It is one who is by himself, without a second, and without son or brother; but there is no end to all his work, and he has never enough of wealth. For whom, then, am I working and keeping myself from pleasure? This again is to no purpose, and a bitter work.

  • Eccl 3:1
    70%

    1For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.

  • Job 31:2
    70%

    2For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?

  • Ps 39:5-6
    2 verses
    70%

    5You have made my days no longer than a hand's measure; and my years are nothing in your eyes; truly, every man is but a breath. (Selah.)

    6Truly, every man goes on his way like an image; he is troubled for no purpose: he makes a great store of wealth, and has no knowledge of who will get it.

  • Ps 103:15
    70%

    15As for man, his days are as grass: his beautiful growth is like the flower of the field.

  • Job 10:20
    70%

    20Are not the days of my life small in number? Let your eyes be turned away from me, so that I may have a little pleasure,

  • Eccl 2:22-23
    2 verses
    69%

    22What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?

    23All his days are sorrow, and his work is full of grief. Even in the night his heart has no rest. This again is to no purpose.

  • Job 21:21
    69%

    21For what interest has he in his house after him, when the number of his months is ended?

  • Eccl 7:20
    69%

    20There is no man on earth of such righteousness that he does good and is free from sin all his days.

  • Eccl 11:8
    69%

    8But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

  • Ps 104:23
    69%

    23Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.

  • Eccl 8:9
    69%

    9All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
    69%

    15For we, as all our fathers were, are like men from a strange country before you, who have got a place for a time in the land; our days on the earth are like a shade, and there is no hope of going on.

  • Job 8:9
    69%

    9(For we are but of yesterday, and have no knowledge, because our days on earth are gone like a shade:)

  • Eccl 8:14
    69%

    14There is a thing which is to no purpose done on the earth: that there are good men to whom is given the same punishment as those who are evil, and there are evil men who get the reward of the good. I say that this again is to no purpose.

  • Eccl 5:16
    69%

    16All his days are in the dark, and he has much sorrow, pain, disease, and trouble.