Job 7:2

Authorized King James Version (1611)

As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for [the reward of] his work:

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Referenced Verses

  • Lev 19:13 : 13 Thou shalt not defraud thy neighbour, neither rob [him]: the wages of him that is hired shall not abide with thee all night until the morning.
  • Deut 24:15 : 15 At his day thou shalt give [him] his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he [is] poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.
  • Jer 6:4 : 4 Prepare ye war against her; arise, and let us go up at noon. Woe unto us! for the day goeth away, for the shadows of the evening are stretched out.
  • Mal 3:5 : 5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against the sorcerers, and against the adulterers, and against false swearers, and against those that oppress the hireling in [his] wages, the widow, and the fatherless, and that turn aside the stranger [from his right], and fear not me, saith the LORD of hosts.
  • Jas 5:4 : 4 Behold, the hire of the labourers who have reaped down your fields, which is of you kept back by fraud, crieth: and the cries of them which have reaped are entered into the ears of the Lord of sabaoth.
  • Ps 119:131 : 131 ¶ I opened my mouth, and panted: for I longed for thy commandments.
  • Ps 143:6 : 6 I stretch forth my hands unto thee: my soul [thirsteth] after thee, as a thirsty land. Selah.

Similar Verses (AI)

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

  • Job 7:3-4
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    3 So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.

    4 When I lie down, I say, When shall I arise, and the night be gone? and I am full of tossings to and fro unto the dawning of the day.

  • 6 Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.

  • 15 At his day thou shalt give [him] his hire, neither shall the sun go down upon it; for he [is] poor, and setteth his heart upon it: lest he cry against thee unto the LORD, and it be sin unto thee.

  • 7 ¶ All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

  • 40 [Thus] I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.

  • 7 Mine eye also is dim by reason of sorrow, and all my members [are] as a shadow.

  • 2 Behold, as the eyes of servants [look] unto the hand of their masters, [and] as the eyes of a maiden unto the hand of her mistress; so our eyes [wait] upon the LORD our God, until that he have mercy upon us.

  • 9 What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?

  • 6 My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.

  • 4 Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.

  • Job 3:20-21
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    20 ¶ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;

    21 Which long for death, but it [cometh] not; and dig for it more than for hid treasures;

  • 2 And a man shall be as an hiding place from the wind, and a covert from the tempest; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shadow of a great rock in a weary land.

  • Eccl 2:20-23
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    20 Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

    21 For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] vanity and a great evil.

    22 For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

    23 For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

  • 7 ¶ And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.

  • 1 ¶ Woe is me! for I am as when they have gathered the summer fruits, as the grapegleanings of the vintage: [there is] no cluster to eat: my soul desired the firstripe fruit.

  • 7 ¶ Truly the light [is] sweet, and a pleasant [thing it is] for the eyes to behold the sun:

  • 8 There is one [alone], and [there is] not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet [is there] no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither [saith he], For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This [is] also vanity, yea, it [is] a sore travail.

  • 12 ¶ Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but [when] the desire cometh, [it is] a tree of life.

  • 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!

  • 23 He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

  • 40 [But] as an hired servant, [and] as a sojourner, he shall be with thee, [and] shall serve thee unto the year of jubile:

  • 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

  • 9 Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • 11 My days [are] like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.

  • 26 ¶ He that laboureth laboureth for himself; for his mouth craveth it of him.

  • 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.

  • Eccl 5:16-17
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    16 And this also [is] a sore evil, [that] in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

    17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and [he hath] much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

  • 18 ¶ Whoso keepeth the fig tree shall eat the fruit thereof: so he that waiteth on his master shall be honoured.

  • 6 My soul [waiteth] for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: [I say, more than] they that watch for the morning.

  • 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.›

  • 2 Oh that I were as [in] months past, as [in] the days [when] God preserved me;

  • 16 As for me, I have not hastened from [being] a pastor to follow thee: neither have I desired the woeful day; thou knowest: that which came out of my lips was [right] before thee.

  • 17 ¶ Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • 15 For we [are] strangers before thee, and sojourners, as [were] all our fathers: our days on the earth [are] as a shadow, and [there is] none abiding.

  • 13 If I did despise the cause of my manservant or of my maidservant, when they contended with me;

  • 20 Desire not the night, when people are cut off in their place.

  • 5 [Are] thy days as the days of man? [are] thy years as man's days,

  • Eccl 2:10-11
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    10 And whatsoever mine eyes desired I kept not from them, I withheld not my heart from any joy; for my heart rejoiced in all my labour: and this was my portion of all my labour.

    11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all [was] vanity and vexation of spirit, and [there was] no profit under the sun.

  • 2 For what portion of God [is there] from above? and [what] inheritance of the Almighty from on high?

  • 23 Man goeth forth unto his work and to his labour until the evening.

  • 12 For who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

  • 20 [Are] not my days few? cease [then, and] let me alone, that I may take comfort a little,