Job 7:2
As a seruant longeth for the shadowe, and as an hyreling looketh for the ende of his worke,
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Referenced Verses
- Lev 19:13 : 13 Thou shalt not do thy neighbour wrong, neither rob him. The workemans hire shal not abide with thee vntil the morning.
- Deut 24:15 : 15 Thou shalt giue him his hire for his day, neither shall the sunne goe downe vpon it: for he is poore, and therewith susteineth his life: lest he crye against thee vnto the Lorde, and it be sinne vnto thee.
- Jer 6:4 : 4 Prepare warre against her: arise, and let vs goe vp toward the South: wo vnto vs: for the day declineth, and the shadowes of the euening are stretched out.
- Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come neere to you to iudgement, and I will be a swift witnesse against the southsayers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that wrongfully keepe backe the hirelings wages, and vexe the widowe, and the fatherlesse, and oppresse the stranger, and feare not me, sayth the Lord of hostes.
- Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the hire of ye labourers, which haue reaped your fieldes (which is of you kept backe by fraude) cryeth, and the cryes of them which haue reaped, are entred into the eares of the Lord of hostes.
- Ps 119:131 : 131 I opened my mouth and panted, because I loued thy commaundements.
- Ps 143:6 : 6 I stretch forth mine hands vnto thee: my soule desireth after thee, as the thirstie land. Selah.
Similar Verses (AI)
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1 Is there not an appointed time to man vpon earth? and are not his dayes as the dayes of an hyreling?
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3 So haue I had as an inheritance the moneths of vanitie, and painefull nights haue bene appointed vnto me.
4 If I layed me downe, I sayde, When shall I arise? and measuring the euening I am euen full with tossing to and fro vnto the dawning of the day.
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6 Turne from him that he may cease vntill his desired day, as an hyreling.
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15 Thou shalt giue him his hire for his day, neither shall the sunne goe downe vpon it: for he is poore, and therewith susteineth his life: lest he crye against thee vnto the Lorde, and it be sinne vnto thee.
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7 All the labour of man is for his mouth: yet the soule is not filled.
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40 I was in the day consumed with heate, and with frost in the night, and my sleepe departed from mine eyes.
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7 Mine eye therefore is dimme for griefe, and all my strength is like a shadowe.
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2 Behold, as the eyes of seruants looke vnto the hand of their masters, and as the eyes of a mayden vnto the hand of her mistres: so our eyes waite vpon the Lord our God vntil he haue mercie vpon vs.
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9 What profite hath hee that worketh of the thing wherein he trauaileth?
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6 My dayes are swifter then a weauers shittle, and they are spent without hope.
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4 Man is like to vanitie: his dayes are like a shadow, that vanisheth.
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20 Wherefore is the light giuen to him that is in miserie? and life vnto them that haue heauie hearts?
21 Which long for death, and if it come not, they would euen search it more then treasures:
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2 And that man shall bee as an hiding place from the winde, and as a refuge for the tempest: as riuers of water in a drie place, and as the shadowe of a great rocke in a weary land.
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20 Therefore I went about to make mine heart abhorre all the labour, wherein I had trauailed vnder the sunne.
21 For there is a man whose trauaile is in wisdome, and in knowledge and in equitie: yet to a man that hath not trauailed herein, shal he giue his portion: this also is vanitie and a great griefe.
22 For what hath man of all his trauaile and griefe of his heart, wherein he hath trauailed vnder the sunne?
23 For all his dayes are sorowes, and his trauaile griefe: his heart also taketh not rest in the night: which also is vanitie.
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7 And now Lord, what wait I for? mine hope is euen in thee.
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1 Wo is me, for I am as the sommer gatherings, and as the grapes of the vintage: there is no cluster to eate: my soule desired the first ripe fruites.
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7 Surely the light is a pleasant thing: and it is a good thing to the eyes to see the sunne.
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8 There is one alone, & there is not a second, which hath neither sonne nor brother, yet is there none end of all his trauaile, neither can his eye be satisfied with riches: neither doeth he thinke, For whome doe I trauaile and defraude my soule of pleasure? this also is vanitie, and this is an euill trauaile.
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12 The hope that is deferred, is the fainting of the heart: but when the desire commeth, it is as a tree of life.
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13 Oh that thou wouldest hide me in the graue, and keepe me secret, vntill thy wrath were past, and wouldest giue me terme, and remember me.
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23 He wandreth to and fro for bread where he may: he knoweth that the day of darkenesse is prepared at hande.
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40 But as an hired seruant, and as a soiourner he shalbe with thee: he shall serue thee vnto the yeere of the Iubile.
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3 What remaineth vnto man in all his trauaile, which he suffereth vnder ye sunne?
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9 The sight of ye eye is better then to walke in ye lustes: this also is vanitie, & vexation of spirit.
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11 My dayes are like a shadowe that fadeth, and I am withered like grasse.
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26 The person that traueileth, traueileth for himselfe: for his mouth craueth it of him.
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2 He shooteth foorth as a flowre, and is cut downe: he vanisheth also as a shadowe, and continueth not.
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16 (5:15) And this also is an euill sickenes that in all pointes as he came, so shall he goe, and what profit hath he that he hath traueiled for the winde?
17 (5:16) Also all his dayes hee eateth in darkenes with much griefe, and in his sorowe and anger.
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18 He that keepeth the fig tree, shall eate the fruite thereof: so he that waiteth vpon his master, shall come to honour.
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6 My soule waiteth on the Lorde more then the morning watch watcheth for the morning.
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7 They sayd vnto him, Because no man hath hired vs. He sayd to them, Goe ye also into my vineyard, and whatsoeuer is right, that shall ye receiue.
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2 Oh that I were as in times past, when God preserued me!
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16 But I haue not thrust in my selfe for a pastour after thee, neither haue I desired the day of miserie, thou knowest: that which came out of my lips, was right before thee.
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17 Therefore I hated life: for the worke that is wrought vnder the sunne is grieuous vnto me: for all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.
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15 For we are stragers before thee, & soiourners, like all our fathers: our dayes are like ye shadowe vpon the earth, & there is none abiding.
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13 If I did contemne the iudgement of my seruant, and of my mayde, when they did contend with me,
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20 Be not carefull in the night, howe he destroyeth the people out of their place.
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5 Are thy dayes as mans dayes? Or thy yeres, as the time of man,
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10 And whatsoeuer mine eyes desired, I withheld it not from them: I withdrew not mine heart from any ioy: for mine heart reioyced in al my labour: & this was my portion of all my trauaile.
11 Then I looked on all my workes that mine hands had wrought, and on the trauaile that I had laboured to doe: and beholde, all is vanitie and vexation of the spirit: and there is no profite vnder the sunne.
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2 For what portion should I haue of God from aboue? and what inheritance of the Almightie from on hie?
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23 Then goeth man forth to his worke, and to his labour vntill the euening.
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12 (7:2) For who knoweth what is good for man in the life and in the nomber of the dayes of the life of his vanitie, seeing he maketh them as a shadowe? For who can shewe vnto man what shall be after him vnder the sunne?
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20 Are not my dayes fewe? let him cease, and leaue off from me, that I may take a litle comfort,