Job 7:2
As a servant desiring the shades of evening, and a workman looking for his payment:
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Referenced Verses
- Lev 19:13 : 13 Do not be cruel to your neighbour or take what is his; do not keep back a servant's payment from him all night till the morning.
- Deut 24:15 : 15 Give 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.
- Jer 6:4 : 4 Make war ready against her; up! let us go up when the sun is high. Sorrow is ours! for the day is turned and the shades of evening are stretched out.
- Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you for judging; I will quickly be a witness against the wonder-workers, against those who have been untrue in married life, against those who take false oaths; against those who keep back from the servant his payment, and who are hard on the widow and the child without a father, who do not give his rights to the man from a strange country, and have no fear of me, says the Lord of armies.
- Jas 5:4 : 4 See, the money which you falsely kept back from the workers cutting the grass in your field, is crying out against you; and the cries of those who took in your grain have come to the ears of the Lord of armies.
- Ps 119:131 : 131 My mouth was open wide, waiting with great desire for your teachings.
- Ps 143:6 : 6 My hands are stretched out to you: my soul is turned to you, like a land in need of water. (Selah.)
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1 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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3 So I have for my heritage months of pain to no purpose, and nights of weariness are given to me.
4 When I go to my bed, I say, When will it be time to get up? but the night is long, and I am turning from side to side till morning light.
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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.
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7 All the work of man is for his mouth, and still he has a desire for food.
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40 This was my condition, wasted by heat in the day and by the bitter cold at night; and sleep went from my eyes.
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7 My eyes have become dark because of my pain, and all my body is wasted to a shade.
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2 See! as the eyes of servants are turned to the hands of their masters, and the eyes of a servant-girl to her owner, so our eyes are waiting for the Lord our God, till he has mercy on us.
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9 What profit has the worker in the work which he does?
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6 My days go quicker than the cloth-worker's thread, and come to an end without hope.
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4 Man is like a breath: his life is like a shade which is quickly gone.
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20 Why does he give light to him who is in trouble, and life to the bitter in soul;
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20 So my mind was turned to grief for all the trouble I had taken and all my wisdom under the sun.
21 Because there is a man whose work has been done with wisdom, with knowledge, and with an expert hand; but one who has done nothing for it will have it for his heritage. This again is to no purpose and a great evil.
22 What does a man get for all his work, and for the weight of care with which he has done his work under the sun?
23 All 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.
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7 And now, Lord, what am I waiting for? my hope is in you.
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1 Sorrow is mine! for I am as when they have got in the summer fruits, like the last of the grapes: there is nothing for food, not even an early fig for my desire.
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7 Truly the light is sweet, and it is good for the eyes to see the sun.
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8 It 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.
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12 Hope put off is a weariness to the heart; but when what is desired comes, it is a tree of life.
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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!
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23 He is wandering about in search of bread, saying, Where is it? and he is certain that the day of trouble is ready for him:
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40 But let him be with you as a servant working for payment, till the year of Jubilee;
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3 What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?
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11 My days are like a shade which is stretched out; I am dry like the grass.
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2 For what is God's reward from on high, or the heritage given by the Ruler of all from heaven?
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23 Man goes out to his work, and to his business, till the evening.
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20 Are 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,