Job 7:1

Bishops' Bible (1568)

Is ther not an appoynted time to man vpon earth? Are not his dayes also like the dayes of an hired seruaunt?

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  • Job 14:5-6 : 5 The dayes of man surely are determined, the number of his monethes are knowen onely vnto thee, thou hast appoynted him his bondes which he can not go beyonde. 6 Go from him, that he may rest vntill his day come which he loketh for, lyke as an hireling doth.
  • Ps 39:4 : 4 O God make me to knowe mine ende, and the number of my dayes: that I may be certified howe long I haue to lyue.
  • Job 14:13-14 : 13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, & keepe me secret vntyl thy wrath were past, and to appoynt me a time wherein thou mightest remember me. 14 May a dead man lyue againe? All the dayes of my lyfe wyll I wayte still, till my chaunging shall come.
  • Lev 25:50 : 50 And he shall recken with hym that bought hym, from the yere that he was solde in, vnto the yere of Iubilee: and the price of his beyng, shalbe accordyng vnto the number of yeres, according to the tyme of an hired seruaunt shall he be with hym.
  • Deut 15:18 : 18 And let it not greeue thine eye, when thou lettest him go out free fro thee, for he hath ben worth a double hired seruaunt to thee in his seruice sixe yeres: And the Lord thy God shall blesse thee in all that thou doest.
  • Job 5:7 : 7 But man is borne vnto labour, like as the sparkes flee vp out of the hot coles,
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 Neither is there any man that hath power ouer the spirite to kepe styll the spirite, nor to haue any power in the tyme of death, nor that can make an ende of the battayle, neither may vngodlynesse deliuer them that meddle withall.
  • Isa 21:16 : 16 For thus hath the Lorde sayde vnto me: There is yet a yere, accordyng to the yeres of an hired seruaunt, and all the glorie of Cedar shall fayle.
  • Isa 38:5 : 5 Go and speake vnto Ezekia: The Lord God of Dauid thy father sendeth thee this worde, I haue hearde thy prayer, and considered thy teares: beholde I wyll put fifteene yeres mo vnto thy lyfe,
  • Isa 40:2 : 2 Comfort Hierusalem at the heart, and tell her, that her trauayle is at an ende, that her offence is pardoned, that she hath receaued at the Lordes hande sufficient correction for all her sinnes.
  • Matt 20:1-9 : 1 For the kyngdome of heauen is lyke vnto a man, that is an householder, whiche went out earlye in the mornyng to hire labourers into his vineyarde. 2 And he agreed with the labourers for a peny a day, & sent them into his vineyarde. 3 And he went out about the thirde houre, and sawe other standyng idle in the market place, 4 And saide vnto them: Go ye also into ye vineyard, & whatsoeuer is right, I wyl geue you. And they went their way. 5 Agayne, he went out about the sixth and nynth houre, and dyd lykewyse. 6 And about the eleuenth houre, he wet out, and founde other standyng idle, and saide vnto them: why stande ye here all the day idle? 7 They saye vnto him: because no man hath hyred vs. He sayth vnto them: go ye also into the vineyarde, and whatsoeuer is ryght, that shall ye receaue. 8 So, when euen was come, the lorde of the vineyard sayth vnto his steward: Call the labourers, and geue them their hire, beginning at ye last, vntyll the first. 9 And when they came, that were hired about the eleuenth houre, they receaued euery man a peny. 10 But when the firste came also, they supposed that they shoulde haue receaued more: and they lykewyse receaued euery man a peny. 11 And when they had receaued it, they murmured against the good man of the house, 12 Saying: These laste haue wrought but one houre, & thou hast made them equall vnto vs, whiche haue borne the burthen and heate of the day. 13 But he aunswered to one of the, & said: Frende, I do thee no wrong: dyddest thou not agree with me for a peny? 14 Take that thyne is, and go thy way: I wyll geue vnto this last, euen as vnto thee. 15 Is it not lawfull for me, to do that I wyll with myne owne? Is thyne eye euyll, because I am good?
  • John 11:9-9 : 9 Iesus aunswered: Are there not twelue houres of the day? If any man walke in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the lyght of this worlde. 10 But yf a man walke in the nyght, he stumbleth, because there is no lyght in hym.

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    2For like as a bonde seruaunt desireth the shadowe, and as an hyreling woulde fayne haue the rewarde of his worke:

    3Euen so haue I laboured whole monethes long in vayne, and many a carefull night haue I tolde.

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    4Hast thou fleshy eyes? or doest thou loke as a man loketh?

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    16I can see no remedy, I shall liue no more: O spare me then, for my dayes are but vanitie.

    17What is man that thou doest magnifie him? and that thou settest thy heart vpon him?

    18Thou visitest him early and euery day, euery moment doest thou trie him.

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    5The dayes of man surely are determined, the number of his monethes are knowen onely vnto thee, thou hast appoynted him his bondes which he can not go beyonde.

    6Go from him, that he may rest vntill his day come which he loketh for, lyke as an hireling doth.

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    3O God, what is man that thou doest knowe hym? what is the sonne of man that thou doest thynke of hym?

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    13O that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, & keepe me secret vntyl thy wrath were past, and to appoynt me a time wherein thou mightest remember me.

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    14Use well the tyme of prosperitie, and remember the tyme of misfortune: for God doth so temper the one and the other, that a man can finde nothing els.

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    6My dayes passe ouer more spedyly then a weauers shuttle, and are spent without hope.

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    1Man that is borne of woman, hath but a short time to lyue, and is full of miserie.

    2He commeth vp, and is cut downe like a floure: He fleeth as it were a shadow, and neuer continueth in one state.

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    6For euery thing wyll haue oportunitie and iudgement: and this is the thing that maketh men full of carefulnesse and sorowe.

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    8There is one man, no mo but himselfe alone, hauing neither childe nor brother, yet is there no ende of his carefull trauayle, his eyes can not be satisfied with riches: yet saith he not for whom do I take such trauayle? For whose pleasure do I thus consume away my life? This is also a vayne and miserable thyng.

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    2For how great a portion shall I haue of God? and what inheritaunce from the almightie on hye?

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    5Behold thou hast made my dayes as it were an hand breadth long, & mine age is euen as nothing before thee: truely euery man is al together vanitie. Selah.

    6Truely man walketh in a vayne shadowe, truely he and all his do disquiet them selues in vayne: he heapeth vp riches, & can not tel who shal vse them.

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    15The dayes of man are as the dayes of an hearbe: he florisheth as a flowre in the fielde.

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    20Are not my dayes fewe? Let him then leaue of fro me, and let me a lone, that I may comfort my selfe a litle,

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    22For what getteth a man of all the labour and trauayle of his mynde that he taketh vnder the sunne?

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    21For what careth he for his house after his death, when the number of his monethes is cut short?

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    20For there is not one iust vpon earth that doth good, and sinneth not.

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    8If a man lyue many yeres, and be glad in them all, let hym remember the dayes of darknesse whiche shalbe manye, and that foloweth: Al thinges shalbe but vanitie.

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    23Man goeth foorth to his worke: and to do his seruice vntyll the euening.

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    9All these thinges haue I considered, and applied my mynde vnto euery worke that is vnder the sunne, howe one man hath lordship vpon another to his owne harme.

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    15For we be but straungers before thee, and soiourners, as were al our fathers: Our dayes on the earth also are but as a shadowe, and there is none abiding.

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    14Yet is there a vanitie vpon earth: There be iust men vnto whom it happeneth as though they had the workes of the vngodly: Againe, there be vngodly, with whom it goeth as though they had the workes of the righteous: This haue I called also a vayne thing.

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    16This is a miserable plague, that he shall go euen as he came away: What helpeth it him then that he hath laboured in the wynde?