Job 7:1

Authorized King James Version (1611)

¶ [Is there] not an appointed time to man upon earth? [are not] his days also like the days of an hireling?

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  • Job 14:5-6 : 5 Seeing his days [are] determined, the number of his months [are] with thee, thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass; 6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
  • Ps 39:4 : 4 LORD, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days, what it [is; that] I may know how frail I [am].
  • Job 14:13-14 : 13 O that thou wouldest hide me in the grave, that thou wouldest keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou wouldest appoint me a set time, and remember me! 14 If a man die, shall he live [again]? all the days of my appointed time will I wait, till my change come.
  • Lev 25:50 : 50 And he shall reckon with him that bought him from the year that he was sold to him unto the year of jubile: and the price of his sale shall be according unto the number of years, according to the time of an hired servant shall it be with him.
  • Deut 15:18 : 18 It shall not seem hard unto thee, when thou sendest him away free from thee; for he hath been worth a double hired servant [to thee], in serving thee six years: and the LORD thy God shall bless thee in all that thou doest.
  • Job 5:7 : 7 Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 [There is] no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither [hath he] power in the day of death: and [there is] no discharge in [that] war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are given to it.
  • Isa 21:16 : 16 For thus hath the Lord said unto me, Within a year, according to the years of an hireling, and all the glory of Kedar shall fail:
  • Isa 38:5 : 5 Go, and say to Hezekiah, Thus saith the LORD, the God of David thy father, I have heard thy prayer, I have seen thy tears: behold, I will add unto thy days fifteen years.
  • Isa 40:2 : 2 Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem, and cry unto her, that her warfare is accomplished, that her iniquity is pardoned: for she hath received of the LORD'S hand double for all her sins.
  • Matt 20:1-9 : 1 ¶ ‹For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man› [that is] ‹an householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard.› 2 ‹And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard.› 3 ‹And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace,› 4 ‹And said unto them; Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way.› 5 ‹Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise.› 6 ‹And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle, and saith unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle?› 7 ‹They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard; and whatsoever is right,› [that] ‹shall ye receive.› 8 ‹So when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and give them› [their] ‹hire, beginning from the last unto the first.› 9 ‹And when they came that› [were hired] ‹about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny.› 10 ‹But when the first came, they supposed that they should have received more; and they likewise received every man a penny.› 11 ‹And when they had received› [it], ‹they murmured against the goodman of the house,› 12 ‹Saying, These last have wrought› [but] ‹one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden and heat of the day.› 13 ‹But he answered one of them, and said, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst not thou agree with me for a penny?› 14 ‹Take› [that] ‹thine› [is], ‹and go thy way: I will give unto this last, even as unto thee.› 15 ‹Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? Is thine eye evil, because I am good?›
  • John 11:9-9 : 9 Jesus answered, ‹Are there not twelve hours in the day? If any man walk in the day, he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.› 10 ‹But if a man walk in the night, he stumbleth, because there is no light in him.›

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    16I loathe [it]; I would not live alway: let me alone; for my days [are] vanity.

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    8But if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh [is] vanity.

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  • 1 Chr 29:15
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