Job 7:2

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Like a servant longing for shade, and like a hired worker waiting for his wages,

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 19:13 : 13 Do not oppress or rob your neighbor. Do not withhold the wages of a hired worker overnight.
  • Deut 24:15 : 15 Pay 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.
  • Jer 6:4 : 4 Prepare for war against her! Arise, let us attack at noon! Woe to us, for the day is waning and the shadows of evening are lengthening.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 I will come near to you for judgment. I will be a swift witness against sorcerers, adulterers, and those who swear falsely; against those who defraud workers of their wages, oppress widows and orphans, and deprive foreigners of justice. They do not fear me, says the Lord of Hosts.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Look, the wages that you withheld from the workers who harvested your fields are crying out, and the cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord of Hosts.
  • Ps 119:131 : 131 I open my mouth wide and pant, longing for Your commandments.
  • Ps 143:6 : 6 I stretch out my hands to you; my soul thirsts for you like a parched land. Selah.

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    1Isn't human life on earth like hard labor and their days like those of a hired worker?

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

    4When I lie down, I think, 'When will I get up?' But the night drags on, and I am filled with tossing till dawn.

  • Job 14:6
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    6So look away from them and let them rest, till they have enjoyed their time like a hired worker.

  • Deut 24:15
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    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 6:7
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    7All human toil is for their mouth, yet their appetite is never satisfied.

  • Gen 31:40
    69%

    40This was my situation: The heat consumed me in the daytime, and the cold at night, and sleep fled from my eyes.

  • Job 17:7
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    7My eyes have grown dim from grief, and all my limbs are like a shadow.

  • Ps 123:2
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    2Behold, as the eyes of servants look to the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a maidservant to the hand of her mistress, so our eyes look to the LORD our God, until He shows us mercy.

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

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

  • Ps 144:4
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    4Man is like a breath; his days are like a passing shadow.

  • Job 3:20-21
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    20Why is light given to those in misery, and life to the bitter in soul?

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  • Isa 32:2
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    2Each man will be like a shelter from the wind and a refuge from the storm, like streams of water in a dry land, like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

  • Eccl 2:20-23
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    20So I turned my heart to despair over all the hard work with which I had labored under the sun.

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

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    7Surely, man goes about as a shadow; surely, they make an uproar over nothing; he heaps up wealth, not knowing who will gather it.

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    1Woe is me, for I am like those gathering summer fruit, like those gleaning after the harvest; there is no cluster to eat, no early fig that my soul desires.

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    7Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun.

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    12Hope deferred makes the heart sick, but a longing fulfilled is a tree of life.

  • Job 14:13
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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!

  • Job 15:23
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    23He wanders about for food, asking, 'Where is it?' He knows that the day of darkness is ready at hand.

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    20Do not long for the night, when people are taken from their place.

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