Job 7:1

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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.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 7:2-3
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    2Like a servant longing for shade, and like a hired worker waiting for his wages,

    3so I have been allotted months of futility, and nights of misery have been assigned to me.

  • Job 10:4-5
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    4Do You have eyes of flesh? Do You see as a mortal sees?

    5Are Your days like the days of a human? Are Your years like those of a strong man?

  • Job 7:16-18
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    16I despise my life; I would not live forever. Leave me alone, for my days are but a breath.

    17What is mankind that you make so much of them, that you give them so much attention,

    18that you examine them every morning and test them every moment?

  • Job 14:5-6
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    74%

    5A person’s days are determined; you have decreed the number of their months and set limits they cannot exceed.

    6So look away from them and let them rest, till they have enjoyed their time like a hired worker.

  • Ps 144:3-4
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    3Lord, what is man that You care for him, or a son of man that You think of him?

    4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

  • Job 14:13-14
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    13If 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!

    14If someone dies, will they live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait for my renewal to come.

  • Eccl 7:14-15
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    73%

    14When times are good, be joyful; but when times are bad, consider this: God has made one as well as the other. Therefore, no one can discover anything about their future.

    15In my fleeting life, I have seen it all: The righteous perishing in their righteousness, and the wicked living long in their wickedness.

  • Job 7:6-7
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    6My days pass more swiftly than a weaver's shuttle, and they come to an end without hope.

    7Remember that my life is but a breath; my eyes will never see good again.

  • Eccl 6:6-7
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    6Even if someone lives a thousand years twice over but does not enjoy their prosperity, do not all go to the same place?

    7All human toil is for their mouth, yet their appetite is never satisfied.

  • Ps 89:47
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    47How long, LORD? Will you hide yourself forever? Will your wrath keep burning like fire?

  • Eccl 3:9
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    9What does the worker gain from all their toil?

  • Job 14:1-3
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    72%

    1Man, born of a woman, is short-lived and full of trouble.

    2He springs up like a flower and withers away; he flees like a shadow and does not endure.

    3Do you fix your gaze on such a one and bring me into judgment with you?

  • Eccl 8:6-7
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    72%

    6For every purpose there is a proper time and procedure, though the misery of mankind weighs heavily upon them.

    7Since no one knows what will happen, who can tell anyone what is to come?

  • Eccl 1:3
    72%

    3What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun?

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11The more words, the more meaningless—and what advantage does that bring to anyone?

    12For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few days of their fleeting life? They pass like a shadow. Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

  • Job 24:1
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    1Why does the Almighty not reserve times of judgment, and why do those who know Him not see His days of justice?

  • Job 20:4
    70%

    4Do you not know this from ancient times, since man was placed on the earth,

  • Deut 24:15
    70%

    15Pay them their wages each day before sunset, because they are poor and depend on it. Otherwise, they may cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

  • Eccl 4:8
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    8There was a man all alone. He had no son or brother. There was no end to his toil, yet his eyes were not content with his wealth. 'For whom am I toiling,' he asked, 'and why am I depriving myself of enjoyment?' This too is meaningless—a miserable business!

  • Eccl 3:1
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    1There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens.

  • Job 31:2
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    2For what is the portion from God above, or the inheritance from the Almighty on high?

  • Ps 39:5-6
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    5LORD, let me know my end and the number of my days, so I may understand how fleeting my life is.

    6Behold, You have made my days a few handbreadths, and my lifetime is as nothing before You. Surely, every man is but a breath. Selah.

  • Ps 103:15
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    15As for man, his days are like grass, he blooms like a flower of the field.

  • Job 10:20
    70%

    20Are not my days few? Leave me alone, so I may have a moment of relief.

  • Eccl 2:22-23
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    69%

    22What does a person gain from all their labor and from the striving of their heart under the sun?

    23All their days are full of sorrow, and their work is filled with grief; even at night their mind does not rest. This too is meaningless.

  • Job 21:21
    69%

    21For what does he care about his household after him, when the number of his months is cut off?

  • Eccl 7:20
    69%

    20Surely there is no one righteous on earth who always does good and never sins.

  • Eccl 11:8
    69%

    8For if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in all of them, but let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is meaningless.

  • Ps 104:23
    69%

    23Man goes out to his work and to his labor until evening.

  • Eccl 8:9
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    9I observed all this as I considered all the work done under the sun: a time when one man has power over another to hurt them.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
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    15For we are strangers and temporary residents before you, as were all our ancestors. Our days on earth are like a shadow, without hope.

  • Job 8:9
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    9for we were only born yesterday and know nothing, and our days on earth are but a shadow.

  • Eccl 8:14
    69%

    14There is a futility that takes place on the earth: righteous people receive what the wicked deserve, and wicked people receive what the righteous deserve. I said, 'This too is vanity.'

  • Eccl 5:16
    69%

    16Throughout his days, he eats in darkness, with great frustration, sickness, and anger.