Job 7:1

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The Brevity of Life“Does not humanity have hard service on earth? Are not their days also like the days of a hired man?

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  • Job 14:5-6 : 5 Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it. 6 Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.
  • Ps 39:4 : 4 “O LORD, help me understand my mortality and the brevity of life! Let me realize how quickly my life will pass!
  • Job 14:13-14 : 13 The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me! 14 If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.
  • Lev 25:50 : 50 He must calculate with the one who bought him the number of years from the year he sold himself to him until the jubilee year, and the cost of his sale must correspond to the number of years, according to the rate of wages a hired worker would have earned while with him.
  • Deut 15:18 : 18 You should not consider it difficult to let him go free, for he will have served you for six years, twice the time of a hired worker; the LORD your God will bless you in everything you do.
  • Job 5:7 : 7 but people are born to trouble, as surely as the sparks fly upward.
  • Eccl 8:8 : 8 Just as no one has power over the wind to restrain it, so no one has power over the day of his death. Just as no one can be discharged during the battle, so wickedness cannot rescue the wicked.
  • Isa 21:16 : 16 For this is what the Lord has told me:“Within exactly one year all the splendor of Kedar will come to an end.
  • Isa 38:5 : 5 “Go and tell Hezekiah:‘This is what the LORD God of your ancestor David says:“I have heard your prayer; I have seen your tears. Look, I will add fifteen years to your life,
  • Isa 40:2 : 2 “Speak kindly to Jerusalem, and tell her that her time of warfare is over, that her punishment is completed. For the LORD has made her pay double for all her sins.”
  • Matt 20:1-9 : 1 Workers in the Vineyard“For the kingdom of heaven is like a landowner who went out early in the morning to hire workers for his vineyard. 2 And after agreeing with the workers for the standard wage, he sent them into his vineyard. 3 When it was about nine o’clock in the morning, he went out again and saw others standing around in the marketplace without work. 4 He said to them,‘You go into the vineyard too, and I will give you whatever is right.’ 5 So they went. When he went out again about noon and three o’clock that afternoon, he did the same thing. 6 And about five o’clock that afternoon he went out and found others standing around, and said to them,‘Why are you standing here all day without work?’ 7 They said to him,‘Because no one hired us.’ He said to them,‘You go and work in the vineyard too.’ 8 When it was evening the owner of the vineyard said to his manager,‘Call the workers and give the pay starting with the last hired until the first.’ 9 When those hired about five o’clock came, each received a full day’s pay. 10 And when those hired first came, they thought they would receive more. But each one also received the standard wage. 11 When they received it, they began to complain against the landowner, 12 saying,‘These last fellows worked one hour, and you have made them equal to us who bore the hardship and burning heat of the day.’ 13 And the landowner replied to one of them,‘Friend, I am not treating you unfairly. Didn’t you agree with me to work for the standard wage? 14 Take what is yours and go. I want to give to this last man the same as I gave to you. 15 Am I not permitted to do what I want with what belongs to me? Or are you envious because I am generous?’
  • John 11:9-9 : 9 Jesus replied,“Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world. 10 But if anyone walks around at night, he stumbles, because the light is not in him.”

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Job 7:2-3
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    2Like a servant longing for the evening shadow, and like a hired man looking for his wages,

    3thus I have been made to inherit months of futility, and nights of sorrow have been appointed to me.

  • Job 10:4-5
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    4Motivations of God“Do you have eyes of flesh, or do you see as a human being sees?

    5Are your days like the days of a mortal, or your years like the years of a mortal,

  • Job 7:16-18
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    16I loathe it; I do not want to live forever; leave me alone, for my days are a vapor!

    17Insignificance of Humans“What is mankind that you make so much of them, and that you pay attention to them?

    18And that you visit them every morning, and try them every moment?

  • Job 14:5-6
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    5Since man’s days are determined, the number of his months is under your control; you have set his limit and he cannot pass it.

    6Look away from him and let him desist, until he fulfills his time like a hired man.

  • Ps 144:3-4
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    3O LORD, of what importance is the human race, that you should notice them? Of what importance is mankind, that you should be concerned about them?

    4People are like a vapor, their days like a shadow that disappears.

  • Job 14:13-14
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    13The Possibility of Another Life“O that you would hide me in Sheol, and conceal me till your anger has passed! O that you would set me a time and then remember me!

    14If a man dies, will he live again? All the days of my hard service I will wait until my release comes.

  • Eccl 7:14-15
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    14In times of prosperity be joyful, but in times of adversity consider this: God has made one as well as the other, so that no one can discover what the future holds.

    15Exceptions to the Law of Retribution During the days of my fleeting life I have seen both of these things: Sometimes a righteous person dies prematurely in spite of his righteousness, and sometimes a wicked person lives long in spite of his evil deeds.

  • Job 7:6-7
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    6My days are swifter than a weaver’s shuttle and they come to an end without hope.

    7Remember that my life is but a breath, that my eyes will never again see happiness.

  • Eccl 6:6-7
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    6if he should live a thousand years twice, yet does not enjoy his prosperity. For both of them die!

    7All of man’s labor is for nothing more than to fill his stomach– yet his appetite is never satisfied!

  • Ps 89:47
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    47Take note of my brief lifespan! Why do you make all people so mortal?

  • Eccl 3:9
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    9Man is Ignorant of God’s Timing What benefit can a worker gain from his toil?

  • Job 14:1-3
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    72%

    1The Brevity of Life“Man, born of woman, lives but a few days, and they are full of trouble.

    2He grows up like a flower and then withers away; he flees like a shadow, and does not remain.

    3Do you fix your eye on such a one? And do you bring me before you for judgment?

  • Eccl 8:6-7
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    6For there is a proper time and procedure for every matter, for the oppression of the king is severe upon his victim.

    7Surely no one knows the future, and no one can tell another person what will happen.

  • Eccl 1:3
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    3Futility Illustrated from Nature What benefit do people get from all the effort which they expend on earth?

  • Eccl 6:11-12
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    11The more one argues with words, the less he accomplishes. How does that benefit him?

    12For no one knows what is best for a person during his life– during the few days of his fleeting life– for they pass away like a shadow. Nor can anyone tell him what the future will hold for him on earth.

  • Job 24:1
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    1The Apparent Indifference of God“Why are times not appointed by the Almighty? Why do those who know him not see his days?

  • Job 20:4
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    4“Surely you know that it has been from old, ever since humankind was placed on the earth,

  • Deut 24:15
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    15You must pay his wage that very day before the sun sets, for he is poor and his life depends on it. Otherwise he will cry out to the LORD against you, and you will be guilty of sin.

  • Eccl 4:8
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    8A man who is all alone with no companion, he has no children nor siblings; yet there is no end to all his toil, and he is never satisfied with riches. He laments,“For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is futile and a burdensome task!

  • Eccl 3:1
    70%

    1A Time for All Events in Life For everything there is an appointed time, and an appropriate time for every activity on earth:

  • Job 31:2
    70%

    2What then would be one’s lot from God above, one’s heritage from the Almighty on high?

  • Ps 39:5-6
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    70%

    5Look, you make my days short-lived, and my life span is nothing from your perspective. Surely all people, even those who seem secure, are nothing but vapor.(Selah)

    6Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”

  • Ps 103:15
    70%

    15A person’s life is like grass. Like a flower in the field it flourishes,

  • Job 10:20
    70%

    20Are not my days few? Cease, then, and leave me alone, that I may find a little comfort,

  • Eccl 2:22-23
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    69%

    22Painful Days and Restless Nights What does a man acquire from all his labor and from the anxiety that accompanies his toil on earth?

    23For all day long his work produces pain and frustration, and even at night his mind cannot relax! This also is futile!

  • Job 21:21
    69%

    21For what is his interest in his home after his death, when the number of his months has been broken off?

  • Eccl 7:20
    69%

    20For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.

  • Eccl 11:8
    69%

    8So, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all, but let him remember that the days of darkness will be many– all that is about to come is obscure.

  • Ps 104:23
    69%

    23Men then go out to do their work, and labor away until evening.

  • Eccl 8:9
    69%

    9While applying my mind to everything that happens in this world, I have seen all this: Sometimes one person dominates other people to their harm.

  • 1 Chr 29:15
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    15For we are resident foreigners and temporary settlers in your presence, like all our ancestors; our days are like a shadow on the earth, without security.

  • Job 8:9
    69%

    9For we were born yesterday and do not have knowledge, since our days on earth are but a shadow.

  • Eccl 8:14
    69%

    14Here is another enigma that occurs on earth: Sometimes there are righteous people who get what the wicked deserve, and sometimes there are wicked people who get what the righteous deserve. I said,“This also is an enigma.”

  • Eccl 5:16
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    16This is another misfortune: Just as he came, so will he go. What did he gain from toiling for the wind?