Job 7:2
As a servant earnestly desireth the shadow, and as an hireling looketh for [the reward of] his work:
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- 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.
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3So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
4When 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.
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6Turn from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as an hireling, his day.
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15At 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.
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7¶ All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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40[Thus] I was; in the day the drought consumed me, and the frost by night; and my sleep departed from mine eyes.
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9What profit hath he that worketh in that wherein he laboureth?
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6My days are swifter than a weaver's shuttle, and are spent without hope.
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20¶ Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, and life unto the bitter [in] soul;
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7¶ And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope [is] in thee.
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